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Headword:
*)astuda/mas
Adler number: alpha,4264
Translated headword: Astydamas, Astudamas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Astydamas] the elder, son of Morsimus the son of
Philocles, both tragic poets; an Athenian, a tragic poet. He wrote 240 tragedies and won with 15. He was a pupil of
Isocrates[1] and turned to tragedy.
Greek Original:*)astuda/mas, o( presbu/ths, ui(o\s *morsi/mou tou= *filokle/ous, tragikw=n a)mfote/rwn, *)aqhnai=os, tragiko/s. e)/graye tragw|di/as sm#, e)ni/khse ie#. a)kroasa/menos de\ h)=n *)isokra/tous kai\ e)tra/ph e)pi\ tragw|di/an.
Notes:
C4 BCE. See OCD(4) s.v. (p.191) for both this man and his son (
alpha 4265) of the same name -- to whom, in fact, the second sentence here is thought to apply. See also
sigma 161 for an anecdote relating to one of these two.
[1] See generally
iota 652.
Keywords: biography; geography; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 January 2002@23:21:09.
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