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"William Bathe (2 April 1564 – 17 June 1614) was a Anglo-Irish Jesuit priest, musician and writer.William Bathe - Catholic Encyclopedia article Life Born in Dublin, Bathe lived at Drumcondra Castle, County Dublin, a member of a leading Anglo-Irish family. He was the eldest surviving son of John Bathe, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland, and his first wife Eleanor Preston, daughter of Jenico Preston, 3rd Viscount Gormanston and Lady Catherine Fitzgerald; his paternal grandfather was James Bathe, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, whose second wife, William's grandmother, was Eleanor Burnell of BalgriffinO Mathúna, Seán P.: William Bathe, S.J. 1564–1614. A Pioneer in Linguistics (John Benjamins, 1986). His brother John Bathe was an Irish representative at the Royal Court in Madrid in the early 1600s. When William's father died in 1586 the family were among the biggest landowners in Dublin, although their wealth and influence notably declined in the next generation. William inherited the family estates on his father's death, but on entering the priesthood he transferred them to John, the next brother in age, in 1601.Ball, F. Elrington: History of Dublin (Alexander Thom and Co., 1920), vol. 6. Bathe was trained as a musician and linguist at Oxford, where he wrote A Brief Introduction to the Art of Music, published in 1584. Following a long- standing family tradition, he also studied law at the Inns of Court in London. For a time he enjoyed the favour of Queen Elizabeth I, to whom he presented a harp of his own design. The Queen made him a number of grants of land, thus adding further to the extensive Bathe holdings: but royal favour ceased after 1598, on the discovery that William had entered the priesthood. The decision of a third Bathe brother, Luke, to become a priest did nothing to restore the family to favour (under the name Fr Edward Bathe, Luke became a prominent member of the Capuchin order). Apart from the religious issue, the close friendship between Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Sir William Warren, who married William's widowed stepmother Jenet Finglas, raised questions about the family's loyalty to the English Crown during O'Neill's rebellion, popularly known as the Nine Years War. William is not known to have visited Ireland after 1601. He taught languages in Europe, and wrote one of the world's first language teaching texts, Janua Linguarum (The Door of Tongues, 1611), a juxtaposition of words and pictorial representations of them. It proved so popular that it was translated into nine languages within twenty years. The Czech educator Comenius based his work Janua linguarum reserata on this text. For a period of time he was Director of the Irish College in Salamanca. He should not be confused with his cousin Sir William Bathe of Athcarne Castle (died 1597), who was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland). ReferencesBibliography Briefe relation of Ireland, and the diversity of Irish in the same and Priests in Ireland and Gentlemen gone abroad 1564 births 1614 deaths 16th-century Irish clergy 16th-century Jesuits 16th-century Roman Catholic priests 17th-century Irish clergy 17th-century Jesuits 17th-century Roman Catholic priests Alumni of the University of Oxford Irish Jesuits Irish Roman Catholic priests Irish writers Linguists from Ireland People from Drumcondra, Dublin 16th-century Anglo-Irish people "
"Iophon (, fl. 428 BC - 405 BC) was a Greek tragic poet and son of Sophocles. Iophon gained the second prize in tragic competition in 428 BC, Euripides being first, and Ion third. He must have been alive in 405 BC, the date of the production of The Frogs of Aristophanes, in which he is spoken of as the only good Athenian tragic poet, although it is hinted that he owed much to his fathers' assistance. He wrote fifty plays, of which only a few fragments and the following eight titles remain: Achilles, Actaeon, Aulodoi ("The Flute- Singers"), Bacchae, Dexamenus, Iliou Persis ("The Sacking of Troy"), Pentheus, and Telephus. It is said that Iophon accused his father before the court of the phratores of being incapable of managing his affairs, so that he might gain the guardianship of his father's fortune. Sophocles replied to this charge by reading the chorus of the Oedipus at Colonus (688 ff.), which he was currently writing. The piece so proved that he was still in possession of all his mental faculties that he was acquitted. References * This work in turn cites: ** Aristophanes, Frogs, 73, 78, with scholia ** Cicero, De senectute, vii. 22 ** Plutarch, Moralia, 785 B ** A. Nauck, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (1889) ** O. Wolff, De Iophonte poëta (Leipzig, 1884) 5th- century BC Athenians Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights Tragic poets 5th-century BC writers Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown "
"King Jĭng of Zhou, (), personal name Ji Gui, was the twenty-fourth king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty and the twelfth of Eastern Zhou. He succeeded to the throne after the death of King Ling of Zhou. King Jĭng reigned from 544 BC to 520 BC. The country was in financial ruin during King Jĭng's reign and supplies had to be bought from neighbouring states. He died in 520 BC of a disease and he was briefly succeeded by his son, King Dao of Zhou. Family * Father: ** Prince Xiexin (; d. 545 BC), ruled as King Ling of Zhou from 571–545 BC * Queens: ** Queen Mu (; d. 527 BC), the mother of Crown Prince Shou * Concubines: ** The mother of Crown Prince Meng and Prince Gai * Sons: ** First son, Prince Chao (; d. 505 BC), fled to Chu in 516 BC ** Crown Prince Shou (; d. 527 BC) ** Crown Prince Meng (; d. 520 BC), ruled as King Dao of Zhou in 520 BC ** Prince Gai (; d. 477 BC), ruled as King Jìng of Zhou from 519–477 BC See also #Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors 520 BC deaths Zhou dynasty kings 6th-century BC Chinese monarchs Year of birth unknown "