Asclēpiadēs of Samos
Asclēpiadēs, of Samos (b. c.320 BC), also called Sicelidas, one of the earliest writers of the Greek literary epigram, and in particular of the love epigram, in the Hellenistic age, a contemporary of Philetas and Theocritus. Many of his poems survive in the Greek Anthology. He gave his name to the ‘asclepiad’ metres, used earlier by Sappho and Alcaeus, because he revived them.





