“To The Unknown God”: St. Paul and Athens in Milton's Areopagitica

Political Poetry across the Centuries

“…On the former see e.g. Wittreich (1972), on the latter Burt (1998). The conscious parallel to Isocrates and the motto from Euripides' The Suppliants are used by Dowling (2006) to suggest an "against the grain" interpretation of the Areopagitica.…”