Asclepiades of Samos
Greece
- Where in Bolaño
- The Savage Detectives III, García Madero's metrical catechism in the car out of Mexico City — the greater Asclepiad, sixteen syllables, defined at speed while Lupe and the fugitives flee north
- Why read them
- Hellenistic epigrammatist (b. c. 320 BC, fl. c. 270 BC) who shrank the funeral inscription into the two-line erotic complaint — shut doors, guttering lamps, unkind girls, wine; some forty poems survive under his name in the Greek Anthology, plus a metre that outlived him and lends García Madero his prosody-quiz vocabulary.