The marketing of the Inferno as a video game made me wonder how Milton's epic might fare. Which led to thinking about Book II of Paradi...

Dante's Inferno -- the video game The heresy canto from Inferno - the Electronic Arts version of Dante's hell:

While it's tangential to our interest in Milton's Sin, the iconography of Medusa does offer a few suggestive parallels -- a beauty...

Charles Grignon (engraver) after Francis Hayman, illustration to Book II of Paradise Lost (1749), engraving. © Christ's College Old Li...

Life of Galileo: GALILEO: Overnight the universe has lost its centre, and by morning it has countless ones. So that now each -- and none ...

The most ancient prototype of Milton's Sin is probably  Echidna  -- half woman, half serpent, mother of Cerberus and a boatload of other...

Satan's confrontation with Death, II.704 ff: So spake the  grieslie  terror, and in shape, So speaking and so  threatning , grew tenf...

The Council scene in Book II leaves the impression that all the "rational options" have been presented, discussed, and decided upo...

Jutta forwarded this review of a book that attempts to read the literary and the political works of Milton, Marvell, and Nedham in relation...

With regard to the interesting simile at the end of Mammon's speech in Book II : He scarce had finisht, when such murmur  filld Th...

A poem, found here ~  No Snow Fell on Eden as i remember it – there was no snow, so no thaw or  tao  as you say no snowmelt drooled...

At the end of Book I of Paradise Lost, Milton made it clear that hell's powers were not all democratically equal - there were the pygmy ...