Together with Vergil these four non-Christians form the group of those classical poets whom Dante most admired and from whom he drew much of the material for his poem. It must be said, however, that while Homer was known in the Middle Ages as the first of the great epic poets, the author of the Iliad and Odyssey, few people, including Dante, could read Greek; thus Homer's great epics were known almost entirely second-hand through the revised version of Dares and Dictys, who told the tale of the Trojan war in a way that exalted the Trojans and often disparaged the Greeks. Dante admired Homer more for his reputation than for any intimate knowledge that he had of his works. The second of the four is Horace, whom Dante calls the "satirist" but whom he must have thought of mainly as a moralist since Dante was familiar only with the Ars poetica. Ovid, who comes next, was the most widely read Roman poet in the Middle Ages, and he was Dante's main source of mythology in the Commedia. Dante, however, seems to have been acquainted with only the Metamorphoses. Coming last is Lucan, author of the Pharsalia, which deals with the Roman civil war between the legions of Pompey and those of Caesar. The book was one of Dante's important historical sources.
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