Asclepiades

Comprehensive information about Asclepiades including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Asclepiades, of Samos, epigrammatist and lyric poet, friend of Theocritus, flourished about 270 b.c. He was the earliest and most important of the convivial and erotic epigrammatists. This educational Asclepiades resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.