Who is busiris in Paradise Lost?
The fictional king Busiris also appears, as the leader of a revolt, in True History (2.23) by Lucian, written in the 2nd century CE. In Paradise Lost, John Milton uses “Busiris” as the name of the Pharaoh of the Exodus, which suggests a comparison between Heracles’ escape and the Israelites’ escape from slavery. What did…