Greek slave known for his fables.

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Greek slave known for his fables.
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Aesop
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Roman orator and statesman who introduced Greek
ideas and technical terms into Latin and wrote
the Philippics, 14 speeches attacking Mark
Antony De Oratore and De Republica, a study of
government.
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Cicero
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Greek playwright whose 18 surviving plays include
Medea, Iphigenia in Aulis, Alcestis, Hippolytus,
Andromache, Hecuba, Heracles, The Trojan Women,
and Electra.
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Euripides
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Greek poet known for the Iliad and the Odyssey,
epics about events during and after the Trojan
War.
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Homer
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Roman poet famous for his Odes, Epodes (a
collection of odelike poems), Epistles (letters
to his friends), and Satires.
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Horace
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Roman poet known for his Art of Love and other
poems and his Metamorphoses, describing his
adventures and love affairs of the gods and
heroes, some taken from Greek and Roman legends
and myths.
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Ovid
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Greek biographer known for his Parallel Lives of
Illustrious Greeks and Romans.
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Plutarch
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Greek playwright whose 7 surviving tragedies
include Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra, and
Oedipus at Colonus.
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Sophocles
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Roman author who wrote the Aeneid (story of
Aeneas, the Trojan hero who survived the fall of
Troy and whose ancestors founded Rome) the
Ecologues, or Bucolics and Georgics (a poem of
advice to farmers.)
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Virgil (Vergil)