Homer
He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. His stories date back to around 1000 BC.
Hesiod
He was a poor farmer and had a hard, bitter life. He wrote "Works and Days" (Ages of Man).
Ovid
He thought myths were nonsense. He wrote during the reign of Augustus.
Pindar
He wrote "Odes" to honor the victors in the games of the festivals of Greece. He was the greatest lypric poet.
Sophocles
He was a tragic poet (no works listed).
Aeschylus
He was the oldest tragic poet that wrote "Persians.
Euripides
He was the youngest tragic poet
Herodotus
Father of History
Aristophanes
Father of Comedy
Plato
He was a famous philosopher.
Theocritus
He was a pastoral poet.
Bion
He wrote "Epitaph on Adonis.
Apollonius
Quest for the Golden Fleece" (Jason and the Argonauts)
Moschus
Europa" poem is what this pastoral poet in best known for writing.
Pausanias
He was a Greek traveler that wrote the first guidebook.
Apuleius
He wrote about Cupid and Psyche; most famous work was "Metamorphoses.
Lucian
He was a Greek poet that satirized the gods.
Appolodorus
He wrote the majority of the myths, but his writing was dull.
Virgil
He did not believe the myths at all, but found human nature in them.
Horace
Carpe diem" was the main theme of this author.
Catullus
He wrote a lot of poems about his friends.