Leviathan in popular culture is still guarding the entrance to Atlantis, but didn't attack Milo's friends upon their return since, thanks to their crystals, it knew they were friends. In the "Hellraiser" series by Clive Barker, the deity that rules Hell is named Leviathan. However, this being takes the form of a gigantic lozenge, rotating in the air above its realm, and pertains in no other way to a sea monster. A season one episode of "Martin Mystery" had Martin and his friends dealing with a Leviathan that was guarding undersea treasure. In the television series "Supernatural", the Leviathans are an ancient race of
Biblical allusions in Shakespeare "did not prevent him from making full use of the Bible in dramatizing his secular sources and thus infusing into them a Biblical meaning." Milward continues that, in writing his plays (in particular, the tragedies), Shakespeare "shows the universal relevance of the Bible both to the reality of human life 'in this harsh world' and to its ideal in the heart of God." Steven Marx suggests "a thorough familiarity with the Scriptures" is a prerequisite to understanding the Biblical references in the plays, and that the plays' references to the Bible "illuminate fresh and surprising meanings in the biblical text."