So was Lucifer a simple literary invention, or had Milton based him on a real person?
Was Milton making a statement with Lucifer, was he telling a story of Europe's lost innocence, how it had been led astray by charismatic rebels who declared war on the established order and now men like Milton were left to pay the price for their impiety?
Because there was a charismatic rebel who lived just a few decades before the creation of Paradise Lost, a rebel who not only declared war on the cosmic order itself, but also sought to bring back the actual worship of the old gods to Europe…
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