Download or read book Asclepiades of Samos and Leonidas of Tarentum written by Jerry Clack and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes-- Introduction-- Greek text-- Commentary-- Index of proper names-- Selected bibliography-- GlossaryThe combined poems by these two writers scarcely exceeds 800 lines, making this volume a manageable text for an undergraduate Greek class. The epigrams convey a good sense of the Hellenistic ethos without posing daunting vocabulary problems.