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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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 +Suidas Lexicon 
  
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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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 +Diodorus of Sicily Historical Library 
  
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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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 +Parian Chronicle 
  
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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:—Astydamas son of Morsimus, having won the prize with his tragedy Parthenopaeus , was accorded by the Athenians the right of dedicating his portrait in the Theatre, and composed on himself the following boastful inscription: +You praise yourself like old Astydamas:—Astydamas son of Morsimus, having won the prize with his tragedy Parthenopaeus , was accorded by the Athenians the right of dedicating his portrait in the Theatre, and composed on himself the following boastful inscription:
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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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