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and that his father's name was Amphiptolemus. His era is inferred from the style and content of the remains, which suit the archaizing movement of the sixth century BCE. Antiquity left no titles or synopses, so the number, scope and focus of his works is unknown, but to judge from the ancient testimonia and the content of the fragments themselves he appears to have specialized in

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. comparable to the fragmentary Hesiodic ''

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''. Asius' preserved genealogies show a preoccupation with

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, in addition to details concerning his own native Samos.. Besides the 13 fragments surviving from his hexametric poetry, there is a short and enigmatic fragment in elegiacs.

Editions and translations

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* . * . * . Ancient Greek epic poets Early Greek epic poets Ancient Samians {{AncientGreece-writer-stub