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RE: VIRGIL: Book VI

Patrick Roper
Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:00:22 +0000

 >  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