Pandæmonium

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Pandæmonium is the capital of Hell in John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost.

John Milton invented the name for the capital of Hell, “the High Capital, of Satan and his Peers”, built by the fallen angels at the suggestion of Mammon at the end of Book I of Paradise Lost (1667). It was designed by the architect Mulciber, who had been the designer of palaces in Heaven before his fall. (In Roman times Mulciber was another name for the Roman god Vulcan). Book II begins with the debate among the “Stygian Council” in the council-chamber of Pandæmonium. The demons built it in about an hour, but it far surpassed all human palaces or dwellings; it may have been small, however, as the demons are described as shrinking from their titanic size in order to fit in.  via wikipedia 

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John Martin, Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, c. 1823–1827
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John Martin, Pandemonium, 1841

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