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== Ahab in Modern Popular Culture ==

== Ahab in Modern Popular Culture ==

The actual character of Ahab does not bear much mention in popular or classical literature. However, the author [[Herman Melville]], in his best-remembered novel ([[Moby Dick]]), gave Ahab's name to a [[paranoia]]c sea [[captain (nautical)|captain]] who sacrificed himself, his ship and his crew in the fatal pursuit of a gigantic [[sperm whale]] that, he believed, had once attacked him and amputated his leg.

The actual character of Ahab does not bear much mention in popular or classical literature. However, the author [[Herman Melville]], in his best-remembered novel (''[[Moby Dick]]''), gave Ahab's name to a [[paranoia]]c sea [[captain (nautical)|captain]] who sacrificed himself, his ship and his crew in the fatal pursuit of a gigantic white [[sperm whale]] that, he believed, had once attacked him and amputated his leg.

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== References ==