Shakespeare's Sonnets

Why did Shakespeare borrow many stories and characters from classical Greek and Roman tourers? What might his purpose have been?

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Shakespeare was educated with Latin texts.... Ovid, Horace, Plautus, Seneca and Virgil. It is only natural that he would draw from these texts and allude to them in his plays.