Greek mythology can be found in poetry.
Key mythographers in the Classical tradition include:Ovid (43 BCE17/18 CE), whose tellings of myths have been profoundly influential;Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, a Latin writer of the late-5th to early-6th centuries, whose Mythologies (Latin: Mitologiarum libri III) gathered and gave moralistic interpretations of a wide range of myths;the anonymous medieval Vatican Mythographers, who developed anthologies of Classical myths that remained influential to the end of the Middle Ages; andRenaissance scholar Natalis Comes, whose ten-book Mythologiae became a standard source for classical mythology in later Renaissance Europe
=== Allegory ===Some theories propose that myths began as allegories for natural phenomena: Apollo represents the sun, Poseidon represents water, and so on

