In the First Circle of Hell or Limbo, Dante encounters with the souls that came to live before Christianity, or that were never baptized. I don't consider this poetic justice; they are condemned to wait in Limbo even though they did not sin. "We have no hope and yet we live in longing" says Virgil who forms part of this group in hell. The both poets meet Homer, who was also a poet, Horace, Ovid and Lucan. This shows that souls that were good while they lived, because of unfortunate timing they must stay in hell for the fact of being born before Christianity or not being baptized. This of course is not their fault, there fore there is no poetic justice in this Circle.
