Editions and Studies

Allen, T. W. (1912).  Homeri opera v (Oxford).

Althaus, A. (1866). De Batrachomyomachia Homericae genuina forma (Diss., Greifswald).

Christensen, J.P. and Robinson, E. (2018). The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice (New York). 

Crusius, G.C. (1827).  Homeri Odyssea cum scholiis veteribus: accendunt Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, Fragmenta. (Oxford).

Evelyn-White, H. G. (1914) Hesiod, the Homeric hymns, and Homerica, London.

Fusillo, M. (1988). La Battaglia delle rane e dei topi:  Batrachomyomachia (Milan).

Glei, R. (1984). Die Batrachomyomachia:  Synoptische Edition und Kommentar (Frankfurt am Main)

Hosty, Matthew (2020). Batrachomyomachia (Battle of Frogs and Mice) Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford).

Ludwich, A. (1896) Die homerische Batrachomyomachia des Karers Pigres nebst Scholien und Kommentar (Teubner).

Migoubert, Yann (1998) La Batrachomyomachie d’Homère (Editions Allia) and (1998) Prolégomènes à l’édition critique du texte de la Batrachomyomachie.  

West, Martin (2003) Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer (Harvard). 

Wölke, H.  (1978). Untersuchungen zur Batrachomyomachie (Berlin).

Works cited in Commentary

Bauer M.M. (2020). “Parody as a Sign of Generic Consciousness: Battle Descriptions in the Pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia”, eds. Luggin J., Fink S., Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts. Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History, 143-156 (Wiesbaden).

Beekes, R.  (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden).

Bershadsky, N. (2010).  “The Unbreakable Shield: Thematics of Sakos and Aspis”, Classical Philology 105.1, 1-24.

Biancardi, E,, Panella, L. W., Lewellen, R. T. (2012). Beta maritima. The Origin of Beets (New York).

Bliquez, L. (1977) “Frogs and Mice at Athens”, TAPA 107, 11-25.

Bucchi, G.  (2015). ‘In tenui labor. Homère comique: réception et traduction de la Batrachomyomachie au XVIe siècle”, in  S. D’Amico (ed.), Homère en Europa à la Renaissance. Traductions et réécritures.

Burkert, W. (1985) Greek Religion. (Cambridge, Mass.)

Dodds, E.R. (1944) Bacchae (Oxford).

Evelyn-White, H. G. (1914). Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Cambridge, Mass).

Fenik, B. (1968).  Typical Battle Scenes in the Iliad:  Studies in the narrative techniques of Homeric battle description (Wiesbaden).

Gantz, Timothy (1996) Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Johns Hopkins Press)

 Garnier, R. (2011). “La Batrachomyomachie: un text polyphonique’, in B. Acosta-Hughes et al. (eds), Homère revisité: parodie et humour dans les réécritures homériques Pr. Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 107-121.

Goldhill, S.  (2010). “Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16”, eds. P. Mitsis and C. Tsagalis, Allusion, Authority, and Truth:  Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (Trends in Classics--Supplementary Volume 7) 115-128 (Berlin).

Hosty, Matthew, “‘Have You Ever Known What It Is to Be an Orphan?’: The Batrachomyomachia and Its Absent Author.” Poems without Poets: Approaches to Anonymous Ancient Poetry, edited by BORIS KAYACHEV, 1st ed., vol. 43, Cambridge Philological Society, 2021, pp. 173–86.

Hosty, M. (2017). “Schrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia” JHS, 137, 135-141. 

Kelly, A. (2009). “Parodic Inconsistency:   Some Problems in the Batrachomyomachia”. JHS 129, 45-51.

Kelly, A. (2014).  “Hellenistic Arming in the Batrachomyomachia”, CQ 64, 45-51.

Kirkwood, Gordon M. (1965). "Homer and Sophocles' Ajax," ed. Michael J. Anderson, Classical Drama and Its Influence: Essays Presented to H.D.F. Kitto 51-70 (London Methuen).

Konstan, D. (2012). “Between Appetite and Emotion, or Why Can’t Animals Have Erôs?”, eds. E. Sanders, N. Lowe, C. Thumiger, and C. Carey,  Eros in Ancient Greece 13-25 (Oxford).

Konstan, David. (2022) "Making Friends with Foreigners: Xenoi in the Homeric Epics". Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, edited by Efi Papadodima, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 29-54.

Migoubert, Yann.  (2003). “Baroccianus 50 et la tradition manuscrite de la Batrachomyomachie”, Gaia revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque 7(1): 405-409.

Most, G. (1993). “Die Batrachomyomachia als ernste Parodie.” Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 15: 27–40.

Murray, A.T. (1925). Iliad (Cambridge, Mass).

Nagy, Gregory (2004). Homer's Text and Language. Urbana/Chicago: Illinois UP XVIII, 197 S. (Traditions).

Nussbaum, Alan J. (1985). Head and Horn in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 1985.

Petazzoni, R.  (1955). The All-Knowing God: Researches Into Early Religion and Culture (London).

Sammons, B. (2010). The Art and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue (Oxford).

Scodel, R. (2008). “Stupid, Pointless Wars”, TAPA 138.2, 219–235.

Sens, A. (2006). “τίπτε γένος τοὐμὸν ζητεῖς;" The Batrachomyomachia, Hellenistic Epic Parody, and Early Epic”, eds. F. Montanari an A. Rengakos, La Poésie Épique Grecque: Metamorphoses d'Un Genre Littéraire (Entretiens Sur L'Antiquite Classique de La Fondation Hardt) 215-48 (Geneva).

Sticker, Iris. 2017. Die Rüstungsszenen in der Batrachomyomachia. Philologus 161: 329 – 336.

Tsagalis, C. 2017. “ΑΠ’/ΚΑΤ’ ΑΙΓΙΛΙΠΟΣ ΠΕΤΡΗΣ: Homeric iconyms and Hittite answers.” In The Winnowing Oar: Studies in Honor of Antonios Regkakos, ed. C. Tsagalis and A. Markantonatos, 191–214. Berlin.