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Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice
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Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice
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Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Written by Homer

Narrated by Arthur Krolman

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Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the rest are about a dozen lines each. They are written in Homeric style and traditionally attributed to Homer but their true provenance is unknown. The Epigrams are a series of fragments on disparate topics including sailors, children and potters and are similarly attributed to Homer although it appears Hesiod and others wrote some of them. Finally, Battle of Frogs and Mice is a light-weight parody -- literally, at one-fiftieth the number of lines -- of Homer's famous battle of Greeks and Trojans epic, Illiad. - Summary by Arthur Krolman

LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 25, 2014
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Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice
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Homer

Although recognized as one of the greatest ancient Greek poets, the life and figure of Homer remains shrouded in mystery. Credited with the authorship of the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, Homer, if he existed, is believed to have lived during the ninth century BC, and has been identified variously as a Babylonian, an Ithacan, or an Ionian. Regardless of his citizenship, Homer’s poems and speeches played a key role in shaping Greek culture, and Homeric studies remains one of the oldest continuous areas of scholarship, reaching from antiquity through to modern times.

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    One of the extremely rare Librovox recordings with competent intonation and pronunciation. Thank you for this service.

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