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 is a work-in-progress (from May 2025). It is unlikely to be finished.

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

1. Boeotians
2. Minyae (Aspledon and Orchomenus)
3. Phocians
4. Locrians
5. Abantes (Euboea)
6. Athenians
7. Salamis
8. Kingdom of Diomedes
9. Kingdom of Agamemnon
10. Kingdom of Menelaus - Lacedaemonians
11. Kingdom of Nestor
12. Arcadia
13. Epeians
14. Kingdom of Meges
15. Kingdom of Odysseus
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
29. Kingdom of Prothous