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In Milton's Hell, what is the devils' equivalent for the gods' Pantheon?
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#111813. Asked by flem-ish. (Dec 31 09 12:23 AM)
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serpa
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In addition, critics have drawn parallels between both Pandemonium and Saint Peter's Basilica, and the Pantheon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost
Pandæmonium is the capital of Hell in the epic poem Paradise Lost by the 17th century English poet John Milton.
"Pandæmonium" (American English "Pandemonium") stems from Greek "παν", meaning "all" or "every", and "δαιμόνιον", meaning "little spirit" or "little angel", or, as Christians interpreted it, "little daemon", and later, "demon" (thus roughly translated as "All Demons"); or it can be interpreted as Παν-δαιμον-ειον = "all-demon-place". It is the name invented by John Milton for the capital of Hell, "the High Capital, of Satan and his Peers", built by the fallen angels at the suggestion of Mammon at the end of Book I, Paradise Lost (1667). Book II begins with the debate among the demons in the council-chamber of Pandæmonium. The demons built it in about an hour, but it far surpassed all human palaces or dwellings; it may have been small, though, since the demons are described as shrinking from their titanic size in order to fit in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandæmonium_(Paradise_Lost)
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