Episode 5: Milton's Satan, or, How the Devil became a Snake 333c6n

How did the Devil become a snake? In this episode we find out about an odd fashion choice with...

How did the Devil become a snake? In this episode we find out about an odd fashion choice with enormous consequences.


Full disclosure: this is the first thing we ever recorded when we were figuring out what this pod was going to be about back in May 2020. The mics in our conversation aren't great. Unlike the other episodes we've done so far, this is focused on one text, John Milton's Paradise Lost, a 17th century epic poem about the creation of the world and humanity's fall into sin. The reason we focused on this text was largely out of happenstance but we thought it was worth saving because Milton's version of Satan is so influential for modern understandings of Satan as a rebellious anti-hero and because we had fun!


If you want to follow along with a great online version of the text, look here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml


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