The Satanic EpicThe Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. |
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... Iliad 7. Worried at the dominance of the Trojans, Athene goes down to the battleground outside Troy and meets her rival Apollo “beside the oak tree.” He accedes to her complaint and they agree to stop the general fighting by having ...
... (Iliad 7.273–82) They both agree to stop fighting, and exchange “glorious presents” so that others may say, “These two fought each other in heart-consuming hate, then joined with each other in close friendship, before they were parted ...
... (Iliad 12.310–21)36 Satan asks the same rhetorical questions: Wherefore do I assume. 35 cm 7.112. 36 Of recent Milton commentators, only John Leonard refers to and quotes the Sarpedon speech. For more extensive discussion of these ...
... Iliad.”37 But Satan's impressive rhetoric is under- cut by his blatant appeal to the rights of monarchy, fine for Homeric heroes but dubious for a revolutionary who had advocated beheading his king. Mil- ton insists on this here ...
... Iliad, though Achilles may be the main character, Hector has perhaps the larger claim to ordinary human sympathy: for one thing he is married, unlike Achilles, and his wife and son make a wonderful appearance in Book 6, the young son ...
Contents
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2 THE EPIC VOICE | 77 |
3 FOLLOW THE LEADER | 114 |
4 MY SELF AM HELL | 147 |
5 SATANS REBELLION | 167 |
6 THE LANGUAGE OF EVIL | 188 |
7 OF MANS FIRST DIS | 217 |
9 SATAN TEMPTER | 259 |
10 IF THEY WILL HEAR | 285 |
11 AT THE SIGN OF THE DOVE AND SERPENT | 301 |
THE STRUCTURES OF PARADISE LOST | 314 |
SIGNS PORTENTOUS | 329 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 349 |
INDEX | 371 |
THE ATTENDANCE MOTIF AND THE GRACES | 239 |