Can you identify the allegorical allusions in Paradise Lost, Book One?
See if you can name five in ten seconds.
Biblical Allusions
- Jesus Christ (1.4)
- Moses (1.8; 1.338)
- Adam and Eve (1.29)
- Genesis 2.17 (1.32)
- Leviathan, from Isaiah 27.1 and Job 41.34 (1.201)
- Exodus 10:13-15 (1.338)
- I Kings 11:1-9 (1.383-91)
- 2 Samuel 12:26-27 (1.396)
- 2 Chronicles 34:4-5 (1.418)
- Genesis 11:4 (1.694)
Classical/Mythological
- Ovid, Metamorphoses (1.197 - 200)
- Virgil's, Aeneid (1.230)
- Homer's Iliad (1.576)
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