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

    Two epic poems are attributed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are composed in a literary type of Greek, Ionic in basis with Aeolic admixtures. Ranked among the great works of Western literature, these two poems together constitute the prototype for all subsequent Western epic poetry. Modern scholars are generally agreed that there was a poet named Homer who lived before 700 B.C., probably in Asia Minor.

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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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