• Astydamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀστυδάμας), or sometimes Astydamas the Younger or Astydamas Minor, was a tragic poet of ancient Greece, who lived at Athens...
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  • poets. Astydamas's sons, Astydamas and Philocles, were both also tragic poets, and there is a later, more obscure tragic poet named Astydamas who may...
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  • in turn the father of the tragedian Astydamas the Elder and was in his turn the father of the tragedian Astydamas the Younger. According to the Suda,...
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    definitively closed and even if they depict scenes from Astydamas' play they may be relevant since Astydamas may have been influenced by Euripides. The vases...
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  • 1884 - 1890, ss. 370 (u. Anthylla, Antias), 656 (u. Asteria 9), 661 (u. Astydamas), 942 (u. Damasistrate), 948 (u. Dailochos), 988 (u. Demoleon), 1243 (u...
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    elements of the legend appear in other places. The 4th century tragedian Astydamas wrote a play about Antigone that is now lost. A description of an ancient...
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    Corinth) 401 BC - Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (posthumous award) 372 BC – Astydamas 3?? BC - Aphareus (? = exact year not preserved) 486 BC – Chionides 472...
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    Electra, and Iphigenia in Aulis. Other contemporary tragedians, such as Astydamas, wrote works on Achilles that are completely lost today. The philosopher...
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    Troy. Hector was the subject of a lost play by the 4th century tragedian Astydamas, which the historian Plutarch described as a masterpiece on par with those...
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  • great-grandson of Philocles, grandson of Morsimus, son of Astydamas the Elder, and brother of Astydamas the Younger, all of whom were also notable tragic poets...
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  • Melanthius, grandnephew of Aeschylus, the father of Astydamas the Elder, grandfather of both Astydamas the Younger and Philocles the Younger. All of these...
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    Piraeus (87–86 BC). There was a popular, now lost play by the tragedian Astydamas with Hermes as the primary subject. As Greek culture and influence spread...
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  • Oedipus Rex and a play about Alcmaeon by 4th century BCE tragic playwright Astydamas. Roman philosopher Cicero praised Pacuvius' play Niptra, which was an...
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    well as Sophocles' play Alcmaeon, and those by Achaeus, Agathon, and Astydamas, are known of, but have all been lost. Apollodorus, 3.7.7. Pausanias,...
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  • 341, as well as the Lenea. In 340 BC, he acted in the Parthenopaeus of Astydamas. He acted as the envoy of Alexander to Pixodarus of Caria in 336 BC. In...
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  • was a tragic actor, victor at the Dionysia in 342—in the Antigone of Astydamas—and 329 BC. He performed also at the games after the victorious siege...
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  • Asmonius – grammarian Aspasia – hetaera of Pericles Aspasius – philosopher Astydamas – three tragic poets Astyochus – Spartan general Athenaeus – two scholars...
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  • and in a now-lost play of the same name by Sophocles's contemporary, Astydamas. For example, Pausanias 9.9.5; Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes 1.308....
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    Palamedes, were the titles of two plays by the 4th century BC Attic tragedian Astydamas the Younger, And the 3rd century BC poet Lycophron also wrote a play with...
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  • recognition (best), and (4) failing to kill while knowing (worst). Thus Astydamas used the second, when he brought Alcmaeon on the stage, who killed Eriphyle...
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