Adam and Eve female lineage, are commonly called the Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve, respectively. These do not fork from a single couple at the same epoch even if the names were borrowed from the Tanakh. John Milton's "Paradise Lost", a famous 17th-century epic poem written in blank verse, explores and elaborates upon the story of Adam and Eve in great detail. As opposed to the Biblical Adam, Milton's Adam is given a glimpse of the future of mankind, by the archangel Michael, before he has to leave Paradise. American painter Thomas Cole painted "The Garden of Eden" (1828), with lavish detail of
The Ray of the Microcosm humankind on Earth. The third part comprises the remaining four cantos which describe Satan’s mutiny against God and fall of Adam and his legion from Heaven. The Ray of the Microcosm “The Ray of the Microcosm” () is a romantic, cosmic-religious poem, written in 1845 by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. It is written in the decasyllabic meter of Serbian epic poetry. Njegoš’s religious poetic thought achieved its highest artistic shape in this work. The poem contains three main thematic parts. The first is the Dedication which introduces some of the most important philosophical and religious premises of the