Other Figures — Minor Figures
26 figures from Paradise Lost who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Aaron
first appears Book 12
- Book 12 · sender: God “Till by two brethren (these two brethren call / Moses and Aaron) sent from God to claim / His people from enthralment, they return”
Moses
first appears Book 12
- Book 12 · sender: God “Till by two brethren (these two brethren call / Moses and Aaron) sent from God to claim / His people from enthralment, they return”
Joshua
first appears Book 12
- Book 12 · with Adam “But Joshua, whom the Gentiles Jesus call, / His name and office bearing, who shall quell / The adversary-Serpent, and bring back / Through the world’s wilderness long-wandered Man / Safe to eternal Paradise of rest”
Jesus
first appears Book 10
- Book 10 · with Satan “When Jesus, Son of Mary, second Eve, / Saw Satan fall, like lightning, down from Heaven”
David
first appears Book 12
- Book 12 · with Son “That of the royal stock / Of David (so I name this king) shall rise / A Son, the Woman’s seed to thee foretold”
Tobias
biblical figure · first appears Book 5
- Book 5 · with Raphael “to travel with Tobias, and secured / His marriage with the seventimes-wedded maid”
Discord
first appears Book 10
- Book 10 · parent: Sin “But Discord first, / Daughter of Sin”
Chance
first appears Book 2
- Book 2 · with Chaos “Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns: next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all”
Night
first appears Book 2
- Book 2 · with Chaos “With him enthroned Sat sable-vested Night, eldest of things, The consort of his reign”
- Book 2 · married with Chaos “With him enthroned Sat sable-vested Night, eldest of things, The consort of his reign”
Titan
primordial deity · first appears Book 1
- Book 1 · rivals with Saturn “Titan, Heaven’s first-born, With his enormous brood, and birthright seized By younger Saturn”
Isaac
first appears Book 12
- Book 12 · parent: Abraham “so call the third / From Abraham, son of Isaac;”
Rhea
deity · first appears Book 1
- Book 1 · child: Jove “he from mightier Jove, His own and Rhea’s son, like measure found”
- Book 4 · child: Bacchus “her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea’s eye;”
Eurynome
first appears Book 10
- Book 10 · with Ophion “the Serpent, whom they called / Ophion, with Eurynome”
Ops
first appears Book 10
- Book 10 · with Ophion “thence by Saturn driven / And Ops”
Cham
mythic ancestor · first appears Book 4
- Book 4 · with Amalthea “where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove, Hid Amalthea”
- Book 4 · with Bacchus “Hid Amalthea, and her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea’s eye;”
Amalthea
mythic figure · first appears Book 4
- Book 4 · with Cham “where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove, Hid Amalthea”
Ceres
goddess · first appears Book 4
- Book 4 · child: Proserpine “Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world;”
Dis
underworld deity · first appears Book 4
- Book 4 · with Proserpine “Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered”
Bacchus
god · first appears Book 4
- Book 4 · with Cham “Hid Amalthea, and her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea’s eye;”
- Book 4 · parent: Rhea “her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea’s eye;”
Ahaz
king · first appears Book 1
- Book 1 · tempter: Rimmon “He also against the house of God was bold: A leper once he lost, and gained a king— Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew God’s altar to disparage and displace”
- Book 1 · deity: Rimmon “For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn His odious offerings, and adore the gods Whom he had vanquished”
Lichas
first appears Book 2
- Book 2 · with Alcides “As when Alcides, from Oechalia crowned With conquest, felt th’ envenomed robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines, And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw Into th’ Euboic sea”
Josiah
king · first appears Book 1
- Book 1 · enemies with Chemos “Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.”
Proserpine
goddess · first appears Book 4
- Book 4 · parent: Ceres “Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world;”
- Book 4 · with Dis “Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered”
Alcides
first appears Book 2
- Book 2 · with Lichas “As when Alcides, from Oechalia crowned With conquest, felt th’ envenomed robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines, And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw Into th’ Euboic sea”
Wisdom
personified wisdom · first appears Book 7
- Book 7 · siblings with Urania “Thou with eternal Wisdom didst converse, Wisdom thy sister, and with her didst play”
Urania
heavenly muse · first appears Book 7
- Book 7 · siblings with Wisdom “Thou with eternal Wisdom didst converse, Wisdom thy sister, and with her didst play”
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Extracted from the original text of Paradise Lost. Made with Rho MD.