Stories from Plato and other classic writers : Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, and Pliny
A children's collection of retold Greek and Roman stories by Mary E. Burt, published in Boston by Ginn in 1895 and drawn from Plato, Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus and Pliny for young readers. Its line illustrations show robed Greek figures in classical settings: a bearded man seated beside a Doric column with a boy attending, a teacher with pupils on temple steps, a youth raising his arm toward birds, and a row of women in draped gowns on a garden bench. A designer could borrow the restrained pen-and-ink vocabulary of columns, drapery and open landscape for classical or historical motifs.
