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John Van Sickle conducted a series of studies to research on pastoral tradition, in which nature plays always a metaphoric role, hence to his focus on horticulture and on the wider range and function of metaphor, understood as a basic cognitive process -- often operative in both technical and everyday language, nowhere more than in how we talk of plants and how plants enliven and enrich our talk about much else.
The Odyssey of Homer by 
Lysistrata by 
The Histories by 
The History of the Peloponnesian War by 
Virgil's Aeneid in Modern Verse by 
Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae by | Aeschylus [524-456, Athens], Prometheus Bound: tragedy [in Greek Tragedies Book I, ed's Griffiths, Most, Lattimore: Chicago ISBN-13: 978-0226035284 |
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| Aristophanes [ca 445-380s, Athens], Lysistrata: comedy, staged in 411 BCE [Tr. J. Henderson (FOCUS Classical Press)] ISBN-13: 978-0941051026 |
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| Herodotus [ca 484-ca 429, Halicarnassus, Asia], Histories (Persian Wars, 490, 480 BCE) [ tr., Marincola (Penguin 1996]. ISBN-13: 978-0140449082 |
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| Homer, Iliad & Odyssey. Translated by Richmond Lattimore, introduction by Richard Martin. Epics for all [ca 750 BCE]; recited yearly at Athens [ca 550-ca 320]; edited in library at Alexandria [ca 300-100] Iliad ISBN-13: 978-0226470498 / Odyssey ISBN-13: 978-0061244186 |
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| Petronius [fl(ourished) ca 60 CE, Rome], Satyricon: [tr. Sarah Ruden (Hackett:)] ISBN-13: 978-0872205109 |
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| Plato [428-348 BCE, Athens], Apology (trial, 399 BCE: written ca 390 BCE ???), in Trial & Death of Socrates (Hackett) ISBN-13: 978-0872205543 |
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| Plato [428-348 BCE, Athens], Republic (conversation imagined ca. 440 BCE; written ca 378 BCE???) Christopher Rowe (Editor, Translator, Introduction) ISBN-13: 9780141442433 |
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| Sophocles [ca 495-406 Athens], Antigone: tragedy staged in 442/1 BCE. In Greek Tragedies Book 1 [ed's Griffith, Lattimore, Most] |
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| Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Penguin (Rex Warner, translator) | |||
| Virgil [70-19 BCE, Rome], Aeneid: epic, recited & read. [translation by Howard Felperin ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781491880364]. |
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