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With the Aeneid, Virgil imitates Homer's epics, the Iliad
and Odyssey, covered in "Ancient Greece and the Formation of the
Western Mind" (see pages 114–530 in Volume A).
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Virgil's influence on artists and poets of the western tradition is
immense. He also appears as Dante's guide in the Divine Comedy,
covered in "The Formation of Western Literature" (see volume B, pages
1826–1962). When told that he must journey through Hell, Purgatory, and
Paradise, Dante protests, "I am not Aeneas, am not Paul," in reference
to Aeneas's visit to the underworld in book 6 of the Aeneid.
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