Article: Tertullian's Pandora and John Milton's The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.(Critical Essay)

John Milton alludes to the classical myth of Pandora several times in his writings. His earliest reference is in his third prolusion, "On the Harmony of the Spheres," which he wrote while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge, between 1625 and 1632. "The fact that we are unable to hear this harmony," says Milton, "seems certainly to be due to the presumption of that thief Prometheus, which brought so many evils upon men" (CPW 1:238-39). Though Milton does not mention Pandora by name, her eventual role in the Fall is implicit in his remarks (CPW 1:239n15). His first explicit allusion to Pandora is in his fourth prolusion, "In the Destruction of any Substance there can ...

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