The Catalogue of the Ships in the Iliad

In Book 2 of Homer's Iliad, the poet lists the places from which the heroes came as they assembled at Aulis for the Trojan expedition. This page lists the contingents in the order in which they appear in the Iliad, with links on subsequent pages to videos that show what the places look like today. The videos contain no narrative, only natural sounds like wind, water and the song of birds.

In exploring and locating the sites I have been guided by the scholarship of Richard Hope Simpson in Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition and Robert H. Consoli, creator of the the Mycenaean Atlas Project. These sources have essential background, commentary and bibliographies.

This list was a work-in-progress that ended in January 2026.

Jonathan Brown

Author of Homeric sites around Troy (2017) and
In search of Homeric Ithaca (2020)

1. Boeotians (29 localities, 50 ships)
2. Minyans (2 localities, 30 ships)
3. Phocians (9 localities, 40 ships)
4. Locrians (9 localities, 40 ships)
5. Abantes (Euboea) (7 localities, 40 ships)
6. Athenians (1 locality, 50 ships)
7. Salamis (1 locality, 12 ships)
8. Kingdom of Diomedes
9. Kingdom of Agamemnon (12 localities, 100 ships - incomplete)
10. Kingdom of Menelaus (9 localities, 60 ships - incomplete)
11. Kingdom of Nestor (9 localities, 90 ships - incomplete)
12. Arcadia
13. Epeians
14. Kingdom of Meges (2 localities, 40 ships)
15. Kingdom of Odysseus (6 localities, 12 ships)
16. Aetolians
17. Cretans
18. Rhodians
19. Kingdom of Nireus
20. Kingdom of Pheidippus and Antiphus
21. Kingdom of Peleus and Achilles
22. Kingdom of Protesilaus
23. Kingdom of Eumelus
24. Kingdom of Philoctetes
25. Asklepiadai
26. Kingdom of Eurypylus
27. Kingdom of Polypoetes
28. Kingdom of Gouneus (6 localities, 22 ships - incomplete)
29. Kingdom of Prothous