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- | “Astydamas the Elder: —Son of Morsimus son of Philocles, both writers of tragedy; of Athens; writer of tragedy; wrote 240 plays; was 15 times victorious; he was a disciple of Isocrates, and changed his subject for tragedy.” Suidas Lexicon: | + | “Astydamas the Elder: —Son of Morsimus son of Philocles, both writers of tragedy; of Athens; writer of tragedy; wrote 240 plays; was 15 times victorious; he was a disciple of Isocrates, and changed his subject for tragedy.” |
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- | “At this time (398 B.C.) Astydamas the tragedy-writer produced his first play. He lived to be sixty (?) years of age.” Diodorus of Sicily Historical Library: | + | “At this time (398 B.C.) Astydamas the tragedy-writer produced his first play. He lived to be sixty (?) years of age.” |
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- | “From the time when Astydamas won at Athens 109 years, in the archonship of Asteius at Athens (373 B.C.).1” Parian Chronicle: | + | “From the time when Astydamas won at Athens 109 years, in the archonship of Asteius at Athens (373 B.C.).1” |
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- | “The Athenians honoured Astydamas above poets like Aeschylus by giving him a bronze statue.” Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers 2. 43 | + | “The Athenians honoured Astydamas above poets like Aeschylus by giving him a bronze statue.” |
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+ | Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers 2. 43 | ||
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- | “You praise yourself like old Astydamas: | + | You praise yourself like old Astydamas: |
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- | Would I had lived in their day or they in mine, who bear the palm for a happy tongue: then should I have been truly judged if I had come off first; but alas! the competitors beyond cavil were before my day.2 | + | |
- | CURFRAG.tlg-0325.1 | + | //Would I had lived in their day or they in mine, who bear the palm for a happy tongue: then should I have been truly judged if I had come off first; but alas! the competitors beyond cavil were before my day.2// |
- | ” Photius Lexicon: | + | Photius Lexicon: |
1 inscriptions mention the performance of his tragedies in 348,342, and 341 ( Parthernopaeus ) cf. Dittenb. 1078; we should therefore prob. read his age above as 90, but there has perh. been confusion between A. and his son of the same name | 1 inscriptions mention the performance of his tragedies in 348,342, and 341 ( Parthernopaeus ) cf. Dittenb. 1078; we should therefore prob. read his age above as 90, but there has perh. been confusion between A. and his son of the same name |
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