W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and writer. Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1865. Yeats was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and was considered to be a pillar of the Irish Literary Revival. His poem, "Leda and the Swan" is notable in it's telling of the Myth of Leda and Zeus through the lense of a rape rather than a seduction. 

Ovid was a Roman poet who lived from 43 B.C.E to 18 C.E. He is best known for his Metamorphoses, a fifteen book epic on mythology. Though his works were hugely popular, in his later years he was exiled by the roman emperor Augustus to live in a province on teh Black Sea. 

Carlos Parada is a former lecturer for the Department of Classics in Lund University, in Sweden. He is also the author of the Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology. His most recent work focuses on the Greek Mythology Link website, which is dedicated to providing in depth looks at Greek Mythology. 

Homer, also known as Homerus, is the author of the epics The Illiad, and The Odyssey. Many historians, including the Greek Herodotus, question whether or Homer actually existed. Many believe that Homer was not a single author, but a travellor who collected the tales that made up The Illiad and The Odyssey.