Mock-heroic poem · 1717

Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice

after the pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia

by Thomas Parnell

Parnell's mock-heroic version of the Battle of the Frogs and Mice: a mouse drowns on a frog's back, and the two nations go to war while the gods look on.

Contents · 3 parts

• Book Iabout 150 lines
• Book IIabout 140 lines
• Book IIIabout 200 lines

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