Philodemus of Gadara ( 1st century b.c.e. ) affirms that writers of prose histories and fictions used literary models .
Philodemus of Gadara ( 1st century b.c.e. ) is an Epicurean philosopher and poet and one of Virgil 's teachers .
Philodemus of Gadara ( 1st century b.c.e. ) , an Epicurean philosopher and poet and one of Virgil 's teachers , affirms that writers of prose histories and fictions used literary models .