Poetry Codex

Ancient Greek & Roman

Asclepiades of Samos

fl. c. 290 BC

Asclepiades of Samos was a Hellenistic epigrammatist of the early third century BC. He is counted among the poets who shaped the short Greek love poem, and Meleager's Garland drew heavily on his work.

The poems collected here are the epigrams that Paton's first volume ascribes to him, chiefly in Book V.

Poems (49)

  1. Book V, 7
  2. Book V, 64
  3. Book V, 85
  4. Book V, 145
  5. Book V, 150
  6. Book V, 153
  7. Book V, 158
  8. Book V, 162
  9. Book V, 164
  10. Book V, 167
  11. Book V, 169
  12. Book V, 181
  13. Book V, 185
  14. Book V, 189
  15. Book V, 203
  16. Book V, 207
  17. Book V, 210
  18. Book VI, 308
  19. Book VII, 11: On Erinna (inscribed on a Volume of her Poems)
  20. Book VII, 145: On Ajax
  21. Book VII, 217: A slightly different version is attributed by Athenaeus to Plato
  22. Book VII, 284
  23. Book VII, 500
  24. Book IX, 63
  25. Book IX, 64
  26. Book IX, 752
  27. Book XII, 46
  28. Book XII, 50
  29. Book XII, 75
  30. Book XII, 105
  31. Book XII, 135
  32. Book XII, 153
  33. Book XII, 161
  34. Book XII, 162
  35. Book XII, 163
  36. Book XII, 166
  37. Book XIII, 23
  38. Book XVI, 68
  39. Laus Veneris (Mackail)
  40. Love in the Storm (Mackail)
  41. Waiting in Vain (Mackail)
  42. The Scorned Lover (Mackail)
  43. The Burden of Youth (Mackail)
  44. The Dew of Tears (Mackail)
  45. Dust and Ashes (Mackail)
  46. Who So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover (Mackail)
  47. A Grave by the Sea (Mackail)
  48. Fleeting Dawn (Mackail)
  49. The Praise of Love

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