Definition of Achitophel. Meaning of Achitophel. Synonyms of Achitophel

- Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden, written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681. The poem tells the Biblical...
- Ahitophel, Achitofel, or Ahithophel (Hebrew: אֲחִיתֹפֶל, romanized: ʾĂḥīṯōp̄el, lit. 'My Brother is Folly') was a counselor of King David and a man greatly...
- by his Azaria and Hushai (1682), a reply to John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. Samuel was the eldest son of John Pordage, a clergyman from Bradfield...
- capital and consulted with the renowned Ahitophel (sometimes spelled Achitophel). It is also speculated that Ahitophel could have joined Absalom's cause...
- John Dryden to complete the second half of his epic poem Absalom and Achitophel. Tate wrote the libretto for Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas; its...
- Lucan, and Statius" in the work. 1681–82 Dryden's long poem Absalom and Achitophel is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against...
- ridiculous into poetry. This line of satire continued with Absalom and Achitophel (1681) and The Medal (1682). His other major works from this period are...
- the basis for several works of fiction. John Dryden's work Absalom and Achitophel is a satire partially concerned with equating biblical events with the...
- described him under the character of Zimri in lines in the poem Absalom and Achitophel (to which Buckingham replied in Poetical Reflections on a late Poem ....
- gender roles. Nevertheless, works such as John Dryden's prose Absalom and Achitophel have depicted an 18th-century perception of masculinity and the role of...