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BATRACHOMYOMACHIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 529 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BATRACHOMYOMACHIA  (Gr . (3arpaxos, "

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frog," Ails, "
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mouse," and µaxrl, "
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battle "), the " Battle of Frogs and Mice," a comic epic or
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parody on the Iliad, definitely attributed to
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Homer by the
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Romans, but according to
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Plutarch (De529 Herodoti Malignitate, 43) the
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work of Pigres of
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Halicarnassus, the
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brother (or son) of
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Artemisia,
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queen of Carla and ally of
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Xerxes . Some
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modern scholars, however, assign it to an
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anonymous poet of the
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time of
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Alexander the
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Great . Edition by A . Ludwich (1896) .

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