Batrachomyomachia

Batrachomyomachia

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

The word by itself means "a silly altercation."

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.