Picture This is firmly grounded in classical texts. Among Heller's major sources were Thucydides' history of the Pelopponnesian War, Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, Diogenes Laertius's lives of Plato and Socrates, Aristotle's Poetics, Xenophon's Hellenica, and a number of texts by Plato, including Apology, Crito, Laws, Phaedo, Symposium, and The Republic.
Works by Hesiod, Homer, and Aristophanes also receive brief mention.
Heller quotes extensively from his classical sources; however, as David Seed notes in The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain,.....
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