Batrachomyomach'ia

Batrachomyomach'ia ('the War of the Frogs and the Mice'), a Greek mock-heroic poem, erroneously ascribed to Homer, with whose works it has been generally printed. Pigres of Caria, who lived in the times of the Persian wars, was named amongst the ancients as its author. It is a parody on the Iliad, in which the military preparations and contests of beasts, with single combats, intervention of the gods, and other Homeric circumstances, are described with much humour. A recent edition is Mitzschke's (Berl. 1874).