The Catalogue of Ships — Iliad II

Homer · ΙΛΙΑΣ · Book Two · Lines 494–759

The Catalogue of Ships

“Tell me now, you Muses who dwell on Olympus — for you are goddesses, you are present and know all things, while we hear only rumour — who were the captains and lords of the Danaans? The multitude I could never tell, not though I had ten tongues and ten mouths, a voice unbreakable, and a heart of bronze within me.” Iliad II 484–493 · after the prose of Samuel Butler, 1898
0ships
29contingents
44captains
≈100,800fighting men
Legend
A Greek (Achaean) contingent — circle area = its ships
10 50 100
An ally of Troy — the poem gives them no ship-counts; most marched

A few marks are drawn oddly on purpose — point at one and it will say why.