sentences:  A modern Catholic rendering of this is known as "Anonymous Christianity" in the theology of Karl Rahner.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.