Sentence Correction

In The Divine Comedy, the pagan poet Virgil appears as an appropriate guide through Hell and Purgatory on account of writing the Messianic Eclogue, a poem mistakenly regarded in the Middle Ages as a Christian prophecy.

A. on account of writing
B. on account of his writing
C. because he wrote
D. because of writing
E. as having written

Answer: C. because he wrote

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