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 Biblical allusions in Shakespeare According to Dr. Naseeb Shaheen, Shakespeare, in writing his plays, "seldom borrows biblical references from his sources, even when those sources contain many references." Roy Battenhouse notes that the Shakespearean tragedy "frequently echoes Bible language or paradigm, even when the play's setting is pagan." Similarly, Peter Milward notes that despite their secular appearance, Shakespeare's plays "conceal an undercurrent of religious meaning which belongs to their deepest essence." Further, Milward maintains that although Shakespeare "may have felt obliged by the circumstances of the Elizabethan stage to avoid Biblical or other religious subjects for his plays," such obligation