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AudioBooks Dimension present The Battle of Frogs and Mice (Battle of the Frogs and Mice | Batrachomyomachia | Βατραχομυομαχία) full audiobook with text, illustrations

Author : Homer (Ὅμηρος)
Written : 800 BCE
Place of Origin : Ancient Greece
Original Media type : Papyrus
Original Language : Ancient Greek
Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White
Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Comedy, Comic Epic, Epic Parody, Fable, Fiction
Reader : Arthur Krolman
Editor : @AudioBooksDimension
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The Batrakhomuomakhia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice | Batrakhomakhia | Βατραχομυομαχία) is our sole extant full example of epic parody. It is dated to the 6th through 4th centuries BCE or later. The poem’s contents indicate later composition or editing.

Hellenistic sources attribute authorship to Homer (Ὅμηρος); later sources credit Pigres (Πίγρης) of Halicarnassus (Ἁλικαρνᾱσσός). Although there is insufficient evidence to place the Batrakhomuomachia in a specific performance context, as a later composition it probably drew on oral performances and textual editions for influence. Whether or not there was an oral tradition of epic parody separate from or prior to the Athenian context, it seems likely that there were regular conventions shaping the practice and performance of parody.

Close readings of the parody reveal a deep engagement with Homeric language and themes. The poem’s plot features a friendship between a frog and a mouse that, following the mouse’s death by falling from the frog’s back during a pond-crossing, results in heroic combat between their ‘tribes’, culminating in a mouse victory (aided by crabs sent by Zeus). The poem also features heroic genealogies, grandiose speeches, type-scenes, a use of paradeigma (e.g., Europa and Zeus), a divine council and divine intervention. At times, the poem may provide parody of the Iliad specifically. Recent scholarship has argued that the parody is engaged in serious—albeit indirect—literary criticism. Inconsistencies in the poem, as when combatants die only to reappear, have been seen by some as intentional imitations of a ‘nodding Homer’ rather than evidence of manuscript corruption.

The poem is very funny at times and attests to deep engagement with different generic traditions, including animal fable, parodic animal epic, the language of tragedy and comedy, as well as traditional epic and myth.
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