Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC) was the greatest poet of ancient Rome. He wrote "Pastoral", "Agricultural Poems" and "Aeneid". "The Aeneid" imitates Homer's epic poem, describing the escape of the Roman ancestors from Troia - wandering on the sea for 7 years - marrying Dido, Queen of Carthage in North Africa and then leaving - being recruited to Latium as a The story of the prince's consort and defeat of his love rival, all the way to the establishment of the Roman state. This is a "literary epic" that praises the glory of Rome.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC) wrote the lyrical poems "Songbook" and "Book of Poems". There are three poems in "Poetry Slips" discussing literary criticism, which are individually called "Poetic Art". "The Art of Poetry" is an important Roman literary theory imitating Aristotle's "Poetics". It reiterates the "theory of imitation", proposes entertaining and entertaining, and emphasizes reasonableness and formal beauty. It has a profound influence on 17th-century classicism.
Ovid (43 BC - 18 AD) wrote the love poems "Amour", "The Art of Love" and the mythological poem "Metamorphoses". "Metamorphoses" includes 250 stories, systematically organizing Greek and Roman myths and legends. Through the transformation between people, gods and objects, it reveals the real life and provides material for the creation of later generations of writers.