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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.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note) on 7 January 2002@03:21:50.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 26 August 2002@08:13:17.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 26 April 2012@04:44:37.
William Hutton (added cross-reference, cosmetics) on 16 October 2013@16:40:51.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 31 July 2014@04:25:48.

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