Asclepiades of Tragilus (Greek: Ἀσκληπιάδης) was an ancient Greek literary critic and mythographer of the 4th century BC, and a student of the Athenian orator Isocrates.
[3] Asclepiades summarized the plots of myths as dramatized in tragedy, and provided details and variants.
He is cited twice in the work traditionally known as the Library of Apollodorus.
[5] A gloss on Vergil's phrase Idaeis cyparissis ("cypresses of Ida") mentions that Asclepiades preserved a Celtic version of the myth of Cyparissus, in which a female Cyparissa is the daughter of a Celtic king named Boreas.
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