Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice, credited to Homer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice by Homer. (Translated by Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White.) Read in English by Arthur Krolman 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice
• Author credits: Homer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 3:07:11

Catalogue topics

• homer
• greek mythology

Track guide

1. 01 - Section 1 — 1:58
2. 02 - Section 2 — 32:41
3. 03 - Section 3 — 34:56
4. 04 - Section 4 — 36:52
5. 05 - Section 5 — 20:58
6. 06 - Section 6 — 14:39
7. 07 - Section 7 — 13:55
8. 08 - Section 8 — 8:36
9. 09 - Section 9 — 22:36

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