>I was delighted to discover that Virgil had preceeded Dante's "Hell". Did >Virgil invent this genre?
No. See, for example, _Odyssey_, Book XI; various parts of Plato, notably the vision of Er in the _Republic_; and the description of Hades in the _Frogs_. Simon Cauchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
