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Thomas Creech, the Glossary

Thomas Creech (1659 – found dead 19 July 1700) was an English translator of classical works, and headmaster of Sherborne School.^[1]

33 relations: Alexander Pope, All Souls College, Oxford, Aphra Behn, Arthur Charlett, Blandford Forum, Christ Church, Oxford, Christopher Codrington, Cornelius Nepos, Denis Lambin, Edmund Waller, Epicureanism, Epideictic, Folke, Horace, Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, John Dryden, John Evelyn's Diary, Justin Martyr, Lucretius, Marcus Manilius, Nahum Tate, Ovid, Parallel Lives, René Rapin, Richard Duke, Robert Anderson (editor and biographer), Robert Pitt (physician), Sherborne School, Theocritus, Thomas Otway, Wadham College, Oxford, Welwyn, William Sancroft.
17th-century suicides
People from Blandford Forum
Writers from Dorset

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.

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All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era.

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Arthur Charlett

Arthur Charlett (1655 – 4 November 1722) was an Oxford academic and administrator.

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Blandford Forum

Blandford Forum is a market town in Dorset, England, on the River Stour, north-west of Poole.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædes, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Christopher Codrington

Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Codrington (– 7 April 1710) was an English Army officer, planter and colonial administrator who served as governor of the Leeward Islands from 1699 to 1704.

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Cornelius Nepos

Cornelius Nepos (c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer.

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Denis Lambin

Denis Lambin (Latinized as Dionysius Lambinus; 1520 – September 1572) was a French classical scholar.

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Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who was Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons.

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Epicureanism

Epicureanism is a system of philosophy founded around 307 BCE based upon the teachings of Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher.

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Epideictic

The epideictic oratory, also called ceremonial oratory, or praise-and-blame rhetoric, is one of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined in Aristotle's Rhetoric, to be used to praise or blame during ceremonies.

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Folke

Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately south-east of Sherborne.

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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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Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (29 October 1819 – 30 March 1885) was a British classical scholar.

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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. Thomas Creech and John Dryden are 1700 deaths.

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John Evelyn's Diary

The Diary of John Evelyn (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706), a gentlemanly Royalist and virtuoso of the seventeenth century, was first published in 1818 (2nd edition, 1819) under the title Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, in an edition by William Bray.

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Justin Martyr

Justin, known posthumously as Justin Martyr (Ioustinos ho martys), also known as Justin the Philosopher, was an early Christian apologist and philosopher.

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Lucretius

Titus Lucretius Carus (–) was a Roman poet and philosopher.

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Marcus Manilius

Marcus Manilius originally hailing from Syria, was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.

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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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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Parallel Lives

The Parallel Lives (Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.

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René Rapin

René Rapin (1621–1687) was a French Jesuit and writer.

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Richard Duke

Richard Duke (13 June 1658 – 11 February 1711) was an English clergyman and poet, associated with the Tory writers of the Restoration era. Thomas Creech and Richard Duke are 17th-century English Anglican priests.

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Robert Anderson (editor and biographer)

Robert Anderson (7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830) was a Scottish author and critic.

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Robert Pitt (physician)

Robert Pitt M.D. (1653–1713) was an English physician.

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Sherborne School

Sherborne School is a 13–18 boys public school and boarding school located beside Sherborne Abbey, in the parish of Sherborne, Dorset.

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Theocritus

Theocritus (Θεόκριτος, Theokritos; born c. 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.

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Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway (3 March 165214 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).

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Wadham College, Oxford

Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Welwyn

Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England.

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William Sancroft

William Sancroft (30 January 161724 November 1693) was the 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, and was one of the Seven Bishops imprisoned in 1688 for seditious libel against King James II, over his opposition to the king's Declaration of Indulgence.

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References

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

Also known as Creech, Thomas.