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Absalom and Achitophel, the Glossary

Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden, written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681.^[1]

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Absalom

Absalom (אַבְשָׁלוֹם ʾAḇšālōm, "father of peace") was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maacah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

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Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936.

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Ahitophel

Ahitophel, Achitofel, or Ahithophel (My Brother is Folly) was a counselor of King David and a man greatly renowned for his wisdom.

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As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.

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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC, FRS (22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683), was an English statesman and peer.

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Books of Samuel

The Book of Samuel (Sefer Shmuel) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.

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Daniël Heinsius

Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) (9 June 158025 February 1655) was one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance.

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David

David ("beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

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Doeg the Edomite

Doeg (Dō’ēg) was an Edomite, chief herdsman to Saul, King of Israel.

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Double agent

In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organization for the target organization.

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Elkanah Settle

Elkanah Settle (1 February 1648 – 12 February 1724) was an English poet and playwright.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Exclusion Crisis

The Exclusion Crisis ran from 1679 until 1681 in the reign of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 19th Baron de Ros, (30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687) was an English statesman and poet who exerted considerable political power during the reign of Charles II of England. Absalom and Achitophel and George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham are Zimri (king).

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Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus.

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Heroic couplet

A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius,. commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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James II of England

James VII and II (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685.

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James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was a Dutch-born English nobleman and military officer.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.

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Juvenal

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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Luke 15

Luke 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

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Mistress (lover)

A mistress is a woman who is in a relatively long-term sexual and romantic relationship with someone who is married to a different person.

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Monmouth Rebellion

The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Nahum Tate

Nahum Tate (1652 – 30 July 1715) was an Anglo-Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist, who became Poet Laureate in 1692.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Oak

An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.

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Og

Og (ʿŌg; ʿŪj; Ōg) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and other sources, an Amorite king of Bashan who was slain along with his army by Moses and his men at the battle of Edrei.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.

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Oxford Parliament (1681)

The Oxford Parliament, also known as the Third Exclusion Parliament, was an English Parliament assembled in the city of Oxford for one week from 21 March 1681 until 28 March 1681 during the reign of Charles II of England.

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Parable of the Prodigal Son

The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father) is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32.

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Popish Plot

The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom_and_Achitophel

Also known as Absalom and Acitophel, Absalom and Ahithophel, Allegorical framework in Dryden’s Absalom & achitophel:.

Absalom and Achitophel, the Glossary

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1681 poems

Absalom

British satirical poems

Cultural depictions of David

Hebrew Bible in popular culture

Poetry by John Dryden

Zimri (king)

References