[Milton-L] Bee similie Pandaemonium

[Jameela Lares]

Hello, Andrea.  Welcome to the list!

One good resource for classical sources is the Perseus site at
www.perseus.tufts.edu.  Always assuming that the site is available, click on
classical texts at the top left and then you can look alphabetically for Homer
and Virgil's epics, available in both the original languages and English.  (If
the site is not available, it is often possible to find the English text via
googling.  I am assuming you don't know Greek or Latin, but if you do, even
better.)

Salmasius is the French scholar whom Milton answers in his First Defense, etc.

One good study of the bees can be found in Karen L. Edwards, Milton and the
Natural World (Cambridge University Press, 1999, though Edwards is focusing on
the bees as understood by the natural history of Milton's time.  If memory
serves, she talks about both Salmasius's treatment and the bee simile. I hope
you've got the book at your library.

Cheers,

Jameela Lares

Quoting Andrea Esther Fingar <fingara1 at mail.montclair.edu>:

> Hello all,
> I've just joined the mailing list. I'm in a Milton course at MSU and am doing
> a research paper. I want to do it on the Bee similie. I'm really a novice
> since I'm an undergrad. and this is my first experience with Milton and
> reading Paradise Lost.
> There are 2 other references to the bee. In Book V and Book VII. Are these
> related to the 1st "Bee" in Book I? The footnote to the "bee" in Book I
> mentions Homer and Virgil also Salmasius' assertion that bees compare to
> absolute monarchy, etc. Can anyone elaborate or point me in the right
> direction to find material on this subject.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrea
> fingara1 at mail.montclair.edu
>
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