Astydamas

(Ἀστυδάμας).

1. A tragic poet, the son of Morsimus and a sister of the poet Aeschylus, was the pupil of Isocrates, and according to Suidas (s. v. Ἀστυδ.) wrote 240 tragedies and gained the prize fifteen times. His first tragedy was brought upon the stage in Ol. 95. 2. (Diod. xiv. p. 676.) He was the author of an epigram in the Greek Anthology (Anal. 3.329), which gave rise to the proverb Σαυτὴν ἐπαινεῖς ὥσπερ Ἀστυδάμας ποτέ. (Suidas, s. v. Σαυτὴν κ. τ. λ.; D. L. 2.43.)

2. A tragic poet, the son of the former. The names of some of his tragedies are mentioned by Suidas (s. v.). [C.P.M]