Comparison of the Aeneid and Paradise Lost

Author

Ruth M. Oehler, Marquette University

Date of Award

4-1936

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

First Advisor

F.A. Ryan

Abstract

In this thesis an attempt has been made to trace some of the direct influences of Virgil's great epic upon Milton's Paradise Lost. The general similarities of the two poets and their principal works together with their similar classical pictures, the borrowings of Milton from Virgil's classical Mythology, and, most important, the plan of the two poems in relation to the forms of a good epic, were used as convenient points of division. An attempt was made to prove these points of similarity by direct quotations from both poets.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty or the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree or Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Recommended Citation

Oehler, Ruth M., "Comparison of the Aeneid and Paradise Lost" (1936). Bachelors’ Theses. 798.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/798