Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 198 pages)
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN:
9781350035997
,
9781350035966
,
9781350035959
Series Statement:
Greek texts 54
Uniform Title:
Battle of the frogs and mice
Content:
"This book offers students of Greek and scholars interested in Greek literature the first English-language commentary on the "Battle of Frogs and Mice", a short animal epic ascribed to Homer in the ancient world. The book includes a contextualizing introduction covering issues of literary genre, literary history and the language of Homeric Greek. In addition to a revised Greek text, the volume also offers a new translation of the poem. The commentary furnishes readers with extensive linguistic and literary information so that they may investigate the problem of the poem's character and authorship on their own. A full vocabulary at the back ensures this is a one-stop shop for students reading the poem."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Introduction -- Date and authorship (1) -- Manuscript tradition -- Our poem -- The tradition of fable -- Epic parody -- Parodic epic -- Homeric language and meter -- Date and authorship (2) -- Divergences from Attic Greek -- A note on translation -- Bibliography -- Greek text -- English translation -- Commentary -- Glossary.
Note:
English translation of original Greek
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350035942
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Homerus The Homeric Battle of the frogs and mice London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ISBN 9781350035942
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Batrachomyomachia
;
Kommentar
DOI:
10.5040/9781350035997
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350035997
