Batrachomyomachia

←

English-language translations of
Bατραχομυομaχία (The Battle of the Frogs and Mice) (7th century BCE)
attributed to Homer

→

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item.

Batrachomyomachia is an ancient Greek comic epic or parody on the Iliad, traditionally - but most likely incorrectly - attributed to Homer.

The following list covers all known English 'translations' (some extremely loose) of Bατραχομυομaχία up to the 1920's. It is derived from English translations from the Greek, a bibliographical survey (1918) by Finley Melville Kendall Foster, pp. 62-76, which was supplemented by Bush, J. N. Douglas (1926), "English Translations of Homer", PMLA, 41 (2): pp. 335–41.

More recently, the period 1550 to 1800 has been re-covered by Cummings, Robert (2009), "Translations from Greek and Latin Classics 1550–1700: A Revised Bibliography", Translation and Literature, 18 (1): 1–42. and Gillespie, Stuart (2009), "Translations from Greek and Latin Classics, Part 2: 1701—1800: A Revised Bibliography", Translation and Literature, 18 (2): 181–224.

3132752Bατραχομυομaχία (The Battle of the Frogs and Mice)

English-language translations of Bατραχομυομaχία include:

Works

The strange, vvonderfull and bloudy Battell betweene Frogs and Mise (1613), paraphrased by W. F. CCC
Batraxomyomaxia (1624), verse translation by George Chapman
Bατραχομυομaχία, or, the wonderfull and bloudy Battell betweene Frogs and Mice (1634), paraphrastically translated by William Fowldes
Homer in a Nutshell, or, His War Between the Frogs and the Mice (1700), paraphrastically translated by Samuel Parker
Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1717), verse translation by Thomas Parnell
The Iliad in a Nutshell: or Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1726), verse translation by Samuel Wesley
Batrachomuomachia: or, the Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1736), translated by H. Price
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1791), blank verse translation by William Cowper
The battle of the Frogs and Mice; from the Batrachomyomachia: with miscellaneous translations (1810) ^[1]
The Frog-and-Mouse-Fight, (1814), translated by Edward Thurlow
Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1831), translated by William John Blew
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1853), literal translation by Theodore Alois Buckley
Batracho-myo-machia: or, The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1863), trans. by Thomas Starling Norgate
Batrachomyomachia, or the Battle of the Frogs and the Mice (1891), trans. by H. Morgan-Brown & North Finchley
The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice (1894), trans. by Jane Barlow
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1920), prose translation by Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White (transcription project)

↑ This anonymously edited book contains translations of various Greek texts. The version of the Batrachomyomachia it includes is Parnell's.

Commentary

"Batrachomyomachia," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Batrachomyomachia," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
"Batrachomyomachia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

[1] This anonymously edited book contains translations of various Greek texts. The version of the Batrachomyomachia it includes is Parnell's.

[1]