The Iliad in a Nutshell
Subtitle: Or, Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice : Illustrated with notes
By: [By Samuel Wesley] ....
Publisher: Printed for B. Barker, at the College-Arms near Dean's-Yard, Westminster; and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane
Published: 1726
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Homer.; Pigres.
Other titles: Batrachomyomachia.; Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
Notes: Dedication 'To the Right Honourable James, Viscount Limerick' signed: 'S. Wesley'; 'Errata' note on verso of page 61.

On 'Batrachomyomachia' Brewer has note: 'A "Storm in a Teacup"; much ado about nothing. The word means 'The Battle of the Frogs and Mice' and is the name of a mock heroic Greek epic once attributed to Homer but probably by Pigres of Caria'; B.L. has note:'Translated in verse, and illustrated with notes, by Samuel Wesley'; NUC calls the work: 'An imitation of Homer'.

ESTC1318W3.

Translation into English verse of the Greek: 'Batrachamyomachia'.