Milton and St. Basil: The Genesis of Sin and Death

Steadman, John M.

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“…64 In a repetition of his own incestuous engendering, Death immediately pursues his fleeing mother, 790 'I fled, but he pursu'd' -as Scylla flees from but cannot escape the dogs that bark around her groin (Met. 14.62 -3 62 See Tatlock 1906;Gossman 1957;Steadman 1958Steadman , 1959 Masson notes ad loc. 'The allegory here if translated would mean that Sin first came into being in the mind of Satan when he conceived his rebellion -the universe till then having known no such thing.'…”

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The Self-Divisions of Scylla

Hardie¹

2009

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In the post-Homeric tradition the sea-monster Scylla is characterized by a duality that manifests itself both in her physical hybridity and in more abstract ways relating to textuality and to fictionality. Ovid, developing features of the Virgilian Scylla, exploits the dualities of Scylla; the self-division of Scylla then lends itself to the purposes of post-classical authors, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, who write to specific theological and allegorical agendas.

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