| LC control no. | n 85215581 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Battle of the frogs and mice |
| Variant(s) | Batrachomyomachia Ranarum muriumque pugna Batrachomyomachie Combat between frogs and rats Βατραχομυομαχία Vatrachomyomachia Battle of frogs and mice Βατραχομαχία Vatrachomachia Batrachomachia Βατραχομαχίη Batrachomachiē Vatrachomachiē Battle of the frogs and the mice Homer. Battle of the frogs and mice Pigres. Battle of the frogs and mice |
| See also | Parody of (work): Homer. Iliad |
| Form of work | Burlesque Epic Poem Burlesques Epic poetry Mock-heroic literature Burlesques (Literature) Mock-heroic poetry. |
| Place of origin | Greece |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Batrachomyomachia, 1486. Oxford comp. to classical lit., 1937 (Batrachomyomachia, or, Battle of the frogs and mice; a parody of an epic poem, attributed in antiquity to Homer, but prob. of much later date) InU/Wing STC files (variant: Ranarum muriumque pugna) LC data base, 12/5/85 (hdg.: Battle of the frogs and mice) Encyc. Britannica online, September 2, 2014 (under Burlesque: The long history of burlesque includes such early examples in Greece as Batrachomyomachia (The Battle of the Frogs and Mice), an anonymous burlesque of Homer) Wikipedia, September 2, 2014 (Batrachomyomachia (Greek: Βατραχομυομαχία = Vatrachomyomachia [modern Greek], Batrachomyomachia [classical Greek]) or the Battle of Frogs and Mice is a comic epic or parody of the Iliad, definitely attributed to Homer by the Romans, but according to Plutarch the work of Pigres of Halicarnassus, the brother (or son) of Artemisia, queen of Caria and ally of Xerxes. Some modern scholars, however, assign it to an anonymous poet of the time of Alexander the Great) The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project website, September 2, 2014 (Batrachomyomachia. Original title: Batrachomyomachie. Combat between frogs and rats; title of a burlesque poem commonly attributed to Homer. Suidas attributes this poem to Pigres or Tigres of Halicarnassus, brother of the illustrious Artemisia, and the name of this Carien can be read at the head of an ancient manuscript of the King's Library. Etienne Nunnésius and other modern scholars also think that Homer is not at all the author. However, antiquity testifies in favor of the poet) <http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0001.053/--batrachomyomachia> The concise Oxford companion to classical literature, ©2003, via Answers.com website, September 2, 2014 (Batrachomyomachia ("battle of the frogs and mice"), a short Greek mockepic poem in the style of Homeric epic, sometimes attributed to Homer in antiquity and difficult to date but perhaps of the fifth century BC) <http://www.answers.com/topic/batrachomyomachia> Brill's New Pauly : encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Antiquity, 2002-2010 (Batrachomyomachia; Homeric parody from the late Hellenistic period. As was the case for the Margites, it was attributed to Homer or to Pigres of Halicarnassus; the title was first Βατραχομαχία = Vatrachomachia [modern Greek], Batrachomachia [classical Greek]) or -ίη respectively, to which the element -μυο- was added either for reasons of pedantry or parody; animal epic of about 300 hexameters (number varies)) Harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquity, 1962 (Batrachomyomachia. The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice. The title of an epic poem, falsely bearing the name of Homer. It was a parody of the Iliad, and was probably written by Pigres; consists of 294 hexameters) |
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