CLXIX: There Once Was a Battle of Frogs & Mice, the Satirical Silliness of the Batrachomyomachia

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We all know the famed battle of Achaean and Trojans, but what about the equally epic battle between the Frogs and the Mice?

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: select research by August Guszkowski; The Battle Between the Frogs and Mice, translated by A.E. Stallings; The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice, edited by Joel Christensen and Erik Robinson.

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0:30.0	Oh, hi.
0:32.7	Hello there.
0:33.7	This is Let's Talk About Myths, baby.
0:36.9	And I am your one and only host, Liv.
0:40.4	Here with... well, something very different from our usual fair.
0:45.2	You see, there was once a battle of frogs and mice.
0:50.2	Or rather, there was once an epic poem of the battle of frogs and mice.
0:55.2	Whether these small creatures ever actually don't armor and went after one another has yet
1:00.6	to be proven... we find it probably didn't happen.
1:05.1	But what did happen was someone wrote an epic poem in the style of the Iliad and the Odyssey
1:11.5	with the intention of satirizing Homer's poems.
1:15.6	And they made it a battle between frogs and mice.
1:19.4	Because the ancient world is absolutely the silliest, coolest place around.
1:26.7	First though, a rip-minder that when this episode comes out, I will be wandering around
1:30.8	Greece.
1:31.8	Needless to say, I'm very excited.
1:32.8	And if you want to see where I'm going or where I've been, including my first ever
1:37.5	trip to fucking my sceney... my sceney, then make sure you follow me on Instagram, the
1:44.6	account is Myths, baby, obviously.
1:46.7	I'm going to try to remember to do some Instagram lives and videos and just like lots more
1:50.9	content, as I know you guys really, like, see in Greece.
1:53.5	You're always asking me questions about it and stuff.
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