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@Virginicus So it might be that literature felt like "a Greek thing" to the Roman. The first Latin authors (around 200 BC) wrote Greek stories, or they wrote Roman stories but as the Greek would have told them. Greek-speaking cities and kingdoms were dominant powers at the time and Greek prestige was *enormous* (Carthage was also heavily influenced by Greece). Besides, in Antiquity the connection between state, nation, culture, language... was in some ways looser than now...