FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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Virgil
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Shakespeare
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Ovid
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Homer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prominent examples of virtuous pagans are Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Trajan, and Virgil. Dante Alighieri, in his Divine Comedy, places a number of virtuous pagans in the first circle of Hell (analogous to Limbo), including Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poets enter the first circle of Hell-Limbo-the place where virtuous pagans reside. Virgil explains that these shades (souls) are only here because they were born without the benefit of Christianity, either due to being born before Christ, or because the soul was an unbaptized child.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unlike the rest of the damned souls, these souls suffered no punishment or pain, but walked freely on the grass and conversed with one another. They took delight in their conversation, but it was a stoic delight that never blossomed into joy. For though they possessed wisdom, they were, one and all, bereft of hope.
Detailed explanation-4: -noun. plural heathens or heathen. old-fashioned + often disparaging : a person who is not religious or whose religion is not Judaism, Islam, or especially Christianity.