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Batrachomyomachia
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The Batrachomyomachia (Βατραχομυομαχίαnote "Frog-Mouse Battle") is an ancient Greek epic in the tradition of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which tackles the grave subjects of war and revenge, as the accidental death of a prince leads the two armies into conflict.Two armies composed of mice and frogs, respectively.One of the ancient "Beast Epics"note (There also existed the lost Γερανομαχία (Geranomachía), Ἀραχνομαχία (Arachnomachía), and Ψαρομαχία (Psaromachía): battles of cranes, spiders, and sparrows), the Batrachomyomachia details a day-long battle between mice and frogs as a mock epic, parodying the genre (and making Parody Older Than Feudalism). The approximately three-hundred line poem's authorship is disputed: the Romans attributed it to Homer, while Plutarch called it the work of Pigres of Halicarnassus. Some modern scholars remain unconvinced and point instead to a poet in the time of Alexander the Great. The Homer version isn't taken seriously by scholars today because the poem mentions roosters, and there weren't any in Greece until a couple of centuries later.The mouse prince Crumb-snatchernote (Ψιχάρπαξ Psichárpax) comes to a lake for a drink when he encounters Puff-jawnote (Φυσίγναθος Physígnathos), king of the frogs. They meet cordially, and Puff-jaw offers to bear his guest across the lake to his home. In the middle of the lake, however, a watersnake appears and the panicked Puff-jaw dives for safety, leaving the hapless Crumb-snatcher to drown.His death is witnessed by the mice and, of course, This Means War!.And so their day-long battle is described with all the elements of the epic genre: arming scenesnote (bean-pod greaves, skin breastplates, and peanut-shell helmets for the mice; mallow-leaf greaves, beet-leaf breastplates, and snail-shell helmets for the frogs), divine participationnote Except for much of the battle, the gods prefer to amuse themselves watching than help either side., character epithets, epic battle scenes, etc. A plethora of epic conventions, all used to describe warring mice and frogs. Thus in modern times, the word 'batrachomyomachia' and its various translations has come to mean "a silly conflict".The mock epic is available online here in the ancient Greek; in English here. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: They even have kings! | |
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Divine Intervention | |
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Divine Intervention: Zeus finally sends in reinforcements (crabs) to aid the frogs and force an end to the battle. | |
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Super Drowning Skills | |
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Super Drowning Skills: Crumb-snatcher's inability to swim and his abandonment by Puff-jaw sets off the conflict. | |
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This Means War! | |
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This Means War!: The prince of frogs has failed to save the prince of the mice after they had a pleasant conversation! Surely, the mice must avenge this insult! | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Slice-snatcher would have routed all the frog warriors if Zeus hadn't intervened. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Puff-jaw completely denies having anything to do with Crumb-snatcher's death. | |
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Civilized Animal | |
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Civilized Animal: It's a mock epic parodying works in the genre like the Iliad, and it does so by replacing the heroic figures with talking mice and frogs. They definitely still behave like animals in some respects, but they wear armor, carry tiny spears, and generally act 'civilized' throughout the 300-line poem. | |
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Bearer of Bad News | |
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Bearer of Bad News: Lick-platter (Λειχοπίναξ, Leichopínax), who brings news of Crumb-snatcher's death to the mice. | |
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SnakesAreEvil | |
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Snakes Are Evil: A watersnake causes Puff-jaw's panic and, inadvertently, Crumb-snatcher's death. | |
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Rule of Personification Conservation | |
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Rule of Personification Conservation: An epic focusing on mice and frogs for the purpose of parody. | |
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Sacred Hospitality | |
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Sacred Hospitality: The frog king Puff-jaw offers to receive Crumb-snatcher as a guest before he takes him across the lake and accidentally drowns him. | |
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Nominal Importance | |
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Nominal Importance: Completely averted, though we don't get much information about these characters besides their names, fathers' names, and how they die or kill their enemy. | |
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Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism | |
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Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: Leans far more to the Talking Animal side of the scale, though the frogs and mice do wear armour and wield spears. | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: The mice declare war seeking vengeance for Crumb-snatcher's death. | |
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Bathos | |
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Bathos: You have the whole epic style, complete with the gods watching over the conflict, and it's about mice and frogs. | |
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Bolt of Divine Retribution | |
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Bolt of Divine Retribution: Zeus releases his bolt to try to frighten the mice into retreat and save the frogs from destruction. The mice continue fighting anyway. | |
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Parody | |
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Parody: One of Homeric epics. | |
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Mouse Trap | |
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Mouse Trap: One killed one of Crumb-snatcher's brothers. | |
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Wicked Weasel | |
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Wicked Weasel: Crumb-snatcher is introduced having escaped galéēs kíndynon (γαλέης κίνδυνον, "the danger of the weasel"). | |
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Anachronistic Clue | |
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Anachronistic Clue: As noted above, this poem was long considered to be by Homer himself. Then someone noticed that the poem says "The cock had crow'd up"... there were no roosters in Greece until a couple centuries after Homer. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: The crabs, which force the mice into retreat at the end of the day. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: Just as violent as the Iliad... just with mice and frogs. | |
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The Muse | |
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The Muse: Invoked at the start, as traditional in epics. | |
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