I happened to find Limbo very interesting. Virgil himself resides here, and has been given only a brief leave to guide Dante. Dante watches a group of men approach and greet Virgil as a fellow poet, and you'll never guess who they ar!. Virgil introduces them as Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan—the greatest poets of antiquity. They lead Dante to a great castle with seven walls, wherein he sees the souls of other great figures from the past: the philosophers Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato; Aeneas, Lavinia, and other characters from the Aeneid; the mathematician Euclid and the astronomer Ptolemy; and many others.
To me, it was interesting that all the great poets of history would be here. We as a culture and a society look at them with great honor and respect and applaud their works. We study and quote them. We write papers on them. And, we try to immolate them in our own writings. So, why were they in hell?
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