The influences behind Flash Gordon

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   c. 550 BCE

   Genesis (Hebrew Bible)

   Anonymous

   Babylonian exile and Persian period. Ancient Judah / Babylon. Written in Hebrew.

   The first book of the Hebrew Bible. It covers the creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, the flood, the Tower of Babel and the patriarchs.

   What it handed down

   To Metropolis (1927)

   Direct source, well documented.

   Midway through the film, Maria tells the workers the story of the Tower of Babel from Genesis 11. Lang stages it as a parable in which the dreamers of the tower are cut off from the hands that build it. The film presents its city's master building as a new Babel.

   To Paradise Lost

   Direct source, well documented.

   Milton's epic expands the first chapters of Genesis: creation, Eden, the serpent's temptation and the expulsion. Many passages paraphrase the biblical text closely.

   Where it came from

   This is one of the oldest surviving works in its tradition; the line ends here.

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