The Club of Hercules: Studies in the Classical Background of Paradise Lost

Achilles Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allusion amorous authors beauty bee simile begins blank verse Book of Paradise borrowing Brinsley Burning Lake Carthage comparison context death describes device Dido Dido's dream Dryden Earth edition English epic episode epithet Eve's eyes fact Fall Fallen Angels Fifth Elegy Fourth Book Georgic glory gods grammar Greek Heaven Hell hero heroic Homer Homer and Virgil Horace Iliad imitation influence innocent Juno Jupiter kind language Latin lines literary London meaning metaphor Milton Criticism mind Mount Ida Neoptolemus note to P.L. Odysseus Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parallel passage Phaethon Phoebus phrase poem poet poetic poetry quoted Raphael reader Renaissance rhetorical rhythmical Roman Salmoneus Satan schoolboy sense serpents shore simile spear speech Spenser structure style Tellus thee thir thou tion Tityos tradition translation Trojans Troy Turnus Typhon verbal echo Virgil Virgilian writes Zeus