This magnificent littérateur has supplied us with the oldest
works of literature known to us, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It
is a controversial belief to believe that these writings were
written around 1000 BC , yet there is no way that any date can
be confirmed and the debate over the dating of these literary
works will be argued for years to come. Homer is said to have
been the greatest "personage writer of all-time" because of his
unique ability to create an inordinate amount of perspective's
to his character's such as Achilles, in the Iliad. Virgil, a
Latin poet, was born in 70 BC and died in 19 BC. Virgil
unexpectedly did not believe in the myths but he somehow found
human nature in the and he brought mythological individuals to
life as no one has been capable of doing since the great Greek
tragedians. Ovid, a Latin Poet, was born in 43 BC and died in AD
17. Ovid was one of the most influential writers of his era. He
maintained a cynical view of the gods, and yet added
multidimensional perspectives to the