Patrick Roper
Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:00:22 +0000
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> I was delighted to discover that
Virgil had preceeded Dante's "Hell". Did Virgil invent this genre?
In addition to the comments of others, the Epic of
Gilgamesh starts:
"Fame
haunts the man who visits Hell,
who lives to tell my entire tale identically." Patrick Roper
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