person
Lot
also: Lót
Lot, nephew of Abraham, who escaped the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19); his wife looked back at the burning cities and was turned into a pillar of salt, the central image of Madách's poem 'Lot.'
Reading notes
- Collected Poems (319 Poems, 1837–1864) §107 Lot
Lot, nephew of Abraham, who escaped the destruction of Sodom (Genesis 19); his wife, turned to a pillar of salt for looking back, is the poem's central image of a fatal backward glance.