Paradise Lost 1

This chapter portrays the throngs of hell, the armies of the dead. Among them, we find the Greek gods and the chief of the underworld, Satan. Milton appeals to a heavenly muse to find inspiration for his writing. The muse, however, is different from the muses of past epics. Instead, here, we find an appeal to a heavenly muse and the Holy Spirit. This is a Christian work that does not hesitate to define itself as different from the religious traditions of the older greek and roman works. I thought it was interesting the Beelzebub and Satan were different characters, I thought they were supposed to be the same?