He was the friend of Menedemus of Eretria, and they both went to live in Megara and studied under Stilpo, before sailing to Elis to join Phaedo's school.
[2] As impoverished young men living in Athens, they were one day summoned before the Areopagus, to explain how they could spend all day with the philosophers if they had no visible means of support.
[3] They eventually settled in Eretria, having transferred Phaedo's school there.
[2] They all lived in one house, and Menedemus entrusted the whole management of it to his former wife.
[2] Asclepiades died before Menedemus, at Eretria, at a great age.