Paradise Lost

This was a fascinating read and I enjoyed looking back at the footnotes while reading and finding the biblical references. Out of all the classical literature, the Bible is one that I am comfortably familiar with and big epic poems like this one and Homer's works tend to reference a lot of things so it was nice to know some of the names Milton was referring to like the Philistine fish-god Dagon or Mammon which was the ?Greek? Hebrew? word for money. I particularly liked Milton's description of the demons as giants like the titans in Greek literature. It completely challenged my thinking about the physicality of these hellish creature - I guess I originally thought of demons as more bony, hunchback things haha!