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272 Virgil<br />

Virgil as Dante’s guide in Hell (Dover Pictorial Series)<br />

Aeneas receives the famous philosophical account<br />

<strong>of</strong> life in the underworld, in which reincarnation<br />

<strong>and</strong> the Stoic doctrine <strong>of</strong> the anima mundi, the<br />

world-spirit running through every part <strong>of</strong> the<br />

universe (refined through purification after being<br />

corrupted during man’s life on earth), play an<br />

important part. Through the words <strong>of</strong> <strong>An</strong>chises,<br />

Virgil presents his own vision <strong>of</strong> the afterlife, <strong>of</strong><br />

the fate <strong>of</strong> the individual soul <strong>and</strong> the cycle <strong>of</strong> its<br />

existence, reflecting the images <strong>of</strong> the “pagan

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