Date

2016-11-21

Featuring

Ben, Matt

Length

20:45

Category

Literature

Series

Paradise Lost

Essential

2022-10-24

The deep dive continues

Next planned deep dives: Don Quixote, Beowulf, The Iliad and The Odyssey

Milton's orcs (sea creatures), orcas, and Tolkien's orcs, are all etymologically related to Orcus, Roman god of the underworld.

15:24 The rhyminess of 'dies' and 'revives', and why isn't Noah named