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SUMMARY:Homer's 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' and the Meaning of Parody -
  Paul Dean
DTSTART:20120501T121000Z
DTEND:20120501T130000Z
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CONTACT:Xinyi Liu
DESCRIPTION:What did parody mean to the Greeks and what does Greek parody 
 mean to us? This paper sets out to\nestablish what parody\, or parodia\, m
 eant for the Greeks\, and the extent to which audience response to parody\
 ndiffered during the Greek period from the later usages it inspired. For t
 he Greeks\, parody indicated a specific\nliterary form rather than a techn
 ique. This discussed\, I shall then turn to examine the only surviving exa
 mple\nof this form\, the Battle of Frogs and Mice (Batrachomyomachia)\, su
 pposedly written by Homer. This firstcentury\nGreek poem poses scholars a 
 variety of questions. It also provide us with an insight into a lesser\nst
 udied period of Greek literature\, as it engages both with a long\, comple
 x and varied history of Greek epic\,\nand with the tradition of animal fab
 les. As the audience attempts to identify the different parodies\, the\nid
 entity and literary associations of the characters becomes more complex.\n
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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