1. George Sandys was an English traveller, colonist, poet, and translator.
16 Facts About George Sandys
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George Sandys was known for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Passion of Jesus, as well as his travel narratives of the Eastern Mediterranean region, which formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology.
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George Sandys was born in Bishopthorpe, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York.
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George Sandys began a version of Virgil's Aeneid, but never produced more than the first book.
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George Sandys died, unmarried, at Boxley, near Maidstone, Kent, in 1644.
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George Sandys's verse was praised by Dryden and Pope; Milton was somewhat indebted to Sandys's Hymn to my Redeemer in his Ode on the Passion.
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George Sandys's narrative, was dedicated to Charles, Prince of Wales and formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology.
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George Sandys appears to have been one of the first non-Jewish travelers to refute the belief that Jews "naturally emit an unsavoury odour".
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The book was well-received in his time, becoming a standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean, although George Sandys has later been critiqued for his attitude towards women in his writing by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
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George Sandys gives an account of Egyptian antiquity and culture, as well as his voyage on the Nile river.
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George Sandys's is the last mention of the tomb of Alexander the Great, although it is likely a mere repetition of the description given by Leo Africanus the earlier century.
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The compilation of these four works, George Sandys Travels, includes fifty maps and images.
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George Sandys adopted English Arminian theological views that were reflected in his writings.
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George Sandys later translated Christus Patiens a theological and political drama of Arminian theologian Hugo Grotius.
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George Sandys's brother Edwin Sandys was a politician and an influential member of the Virginia Company of London.
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George Sandys was an uncle of Richard Lovelace, an English poet in the seventeenth century.