The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems

According Adonis allusion ancients Aphrodite Apollo Apollodorus Apollonius appears associated Aurora Bacchus beauty called cave Chaos chariot Chimæra Circe cited classical mythology color Comus conception Cotytto Cronus dark daughter Dawn describes Diana divinity earth epithet Erebus Euripides Eurynome father flowers goddess gods golden Gorgons Graces Greek Hades heaven Hell Hephæstus Hera Heracles Hermes Hesiod Hesiod Theog Homer Hyginus hymn idea Jove L'AI L'Al Latin light lines Melancholy mentioned Milton Milton refers Milton speaks mortal mother Muses myth Naiads nature Neptune Nereids Night nymphs Odysseus Olympus Orph Orpheus Orphic Ovid Ovid's passage Pausanias Pens Pindar Plato Plutarch poems poet poetry Poseidon represented Rhea Saturn says Sea-gods seems serpent Servius sing sirens Sleep song spirit spring story Strabo suggested sweet Theoc Theocritus Theog things tion Titans told truth Venus Verg Vergil Vesta winds wings writers Zephyrus Zeus