One of the early classic examples of burlesque, this Greek poem was probably written sometime around  300 BC.
One of the early classic examples of burlesque, this Greek poem was probably written sometime around  300 BC. It tells of a war caused by one friend abandoning another in the middle of a pond, where he  drowns. The battle starts when the gnats sound the attack, and one of the sides is nearly annihilated until  an army of land-crabs appears and saves them. The battle ends with the victorious mice returning home  in disorder. For ten points name this satirical epic on The Iliad, which was once attributed to Homer.
One of the early classic examples of burlesque, this Greek poem was probably written sometime around  300 BC.
Battle of the Frogs and Mice or Batrachomyomachia