In a short but well-developed paragraph, briefly explain how…

In a short but well-developed paragraph, briefly explain how the work of one or more of the following authors relates to the historical background of the time period in which it was written.      Sophocles, Oedipus the King      Euripides, Medea      Herodotus, from The Histories      Lucretius, On the Nature of Things      Ovid, Metamorphoses       Virgil, The Aeneid