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Catalogue of Ships

The Catalogue of Ships (?e?? ?at??????; neon katalogos) is a passage in Book 2 of Homer's

Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
(2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean

Achaeans

The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....
army that sailed to Troy

Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
. The sonorous catalogue gives the names of the leaders of each contingent, lists the settlements in the kingdom represented by the contingent, sometimes with a descriptive epithet

Epithet

An epithet is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula....
that fills out a half-verse or articulates the flow of names and parentage and place, and gives the number of ships required to transport the men to Troy, offering further differentiations of weightiness.

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The Catalogue of Ships (?e?? ?at??????; neon katalogos) is a passage in Book 2 of Homer's

Homer

Achaeans

The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....
army that sailed to Troy

Troy

Epithet

Trojan Battle Order

The Trojan Battle Order or Trojan Catalogue is a section of the second book of the Iliad listing the allied contingents that fought for Troy in the Trojan War....
and their allies follows (2.816-877).

Historical background

The designation Catalogue of Ships suggests that the passage is in some way detachable from its context. It is bracketed between two invocation

Invocation

An invocation may take the form of:*Supplication or prayer.*A form of Spirit possession.*Command or conjuration.*Self-identification with certain spirits....
s. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was written by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean

Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece is a cultural period of ancient Greece taking its name from the archaeological site of Mycenae in northeastern Argolis, in the Peloponnese of southern Greece....
times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. The separate debate over the identity of Homer and the authorship of the Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
and the Odyssey
Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Hellenic civilization epic poetrys attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer....
is conventionally termed "the Homeric Question

Homeric Question

The Homeric Question concerns the doubt and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity....
".

The consensus before the mid-twentieth century was that the Catalogue of Ships was not the work of the man who wrote the Iliad, though great pains had been taken to render it a work of art; furthermore, that the material of the text is essentially Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean, while disagreement centers largely on the extent of later additions.

If taken to be an accurate account, the Catalogue provides a rare summary of the geopolitical situation in early Greece at some time between the Late Bronze Age and the eighth century BCE. Following Milman Parry

Milman Parry

Milman Parry was a scholar of epic poetry and the founder of the discipline of oral tradition.He studied at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Paris ....
's theory of Homeric oral poetry

Oral poetry

Oral poetry can be defined in various ways. A strict definition would include only poetry that is composed and transmitted without any aid of writing....
, some scholars, such as Denys Page

Denys Page

Sir Denys Lionel Page was a British classical scholar at University of Oxford and Cambridge University....
, argue that it represents a pre-Homeric recitation incorporated into the epic by Homer. A few argue that parts of the recitation, such as the formulae describing places, date as early as the time of the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
in the mid-13th century BCE, or possibly before. Others contend that the Catalogue is based on the time of Homer himself in the eighth century BCE and represents an anachronistic attempt to impose contemporary information to events five centuries earlier.

An intermediate theory is that the catalogue developed through a process of accretion during the poem's oral transmission

Oral literature

Oral literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the writing word. It thus forms a generally more fundamental component of culture, but operates in many ways as one might expect literature to do....
and reflects gradual inclusion of the homelands of local sponsors by individual singers. In the most recent extended study of the Catalogue, Edzard Visser, of the University of Basel, concludes that the Catalogue is compatible with the rest of the Iliad in its techniques of verse improvisation, that the order of the names is meaningful and that the geographical epithets evince concrete geographical knowledge. Visser argues that this knowledge was transmitted by the heroic myth, elements of which introduce each geographical section. W. W. Minton places the catalogue within similar "enumerations" in Homer and Hesiod

Hesiod

Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
, and suggests that part of their purpose was to impress the audience with a display of the performer's memory.

The most striking feature of the catalogue's geography is that it does not portray Greece in the Iron Age

Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
, the time of Homer. By then a tribal identity called the Dorians had enveloped

Dorian invasion

The Dorian invasion is a concept devised by historians of Ancient Greece to explain the replacement of pre-classical dialects and traditions in southern Greece by the ones that prevailed in Classical Greece....
western Greece, the Peloponnesus and Crete

Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
, while the shores of Ionia

Ionia

Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest Izmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Hellenes settlements....
were densely populated by a people claiming to descend from families in the now-Dorian regions of Greece. The whole northwestern part of Greece is not mentioned and it is these peoples (Epirotes, Macedonians, some Thessalians etc) thought to be of Dorian descent.

Instead the catalogue portrays a loose union of city-states ruled by hereditary families under the hegemony of the king of Mycenae

Mycenae

Mycenae , is an archaeology in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north....
. Nearly none of them are Dorian. The Greeks are mainly missing from the shores of the Ionian Islands

Ionian Islands

The Ionian Islands are a island group in Greece. They are traditionally called "Eptanisa", i.e. "the Seven Islands" , but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones....
. This political snapshot is undeniably one intended to be of Late Bronze Age Greece. The main historical problem with the catalogue is the extent to which it is.

The Catalogue

The Greek Catalogue lists twenty-nine contingents under 46 captains, accounting for a total of 1186 ships. Using the Boeotian figure of 120 men per ship results in a total of 142,320 men transported to the Troad. They are named by various ethnonym

Ethnonym

An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms and autonyms .As an example, the ethnonym for the ethnically dominant group in Germany is the Germans....
s and had lived in 164 places described by toponyms

Toponymy

Toponymy is the scientific study of place-names , their origins, meanings, use and typology. The first part of the word is derived from the Greek language t?pos , place; followed by ?noma , meaning name....
. The majority of these places have been identified and were occupied in the Late Bronze Age

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
. The terms Danaans, Argives and Achaeans

Achaeans

The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....
or the sons of the Achaeans are used for the army as a whole.

**Tabular Catalog**
Line	Ethnic Identity	No. of Ships	Captains	Settlements
2.494	Boeotians	50 of 120 men each	(First led by Thersander Thersander In Homer's Iliad, Thersander was one of the Epigoni, who attacked the city of Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who had attempted the same thing.... , then by:) Peneleos, Leïtus, Arcesilaus Arcesilaus Arcesilaus was a Greece philosopher and founder of the Second or Middle Platonic Academy—the skepticism phase of the Academy. Arcesilaus succeeded Crates of Athens as head of the Academy c.... , Prothoënor and Clonius	Hyria Hyria Hyria may refer to:Hyria , an ancient town in Boeotia.Hyria , an ancient town in Campania, a short distance east of Nuceria Altaferna.*Hyria, a principal Messapii town in ancient Messapia, corresponding to the modern town Oria .... , Aulis Aulis Aulis is:In Greek mythology, Aulis* was bothA daughter of King Ogyges and Thebe , andModern day Avlida, a port in Boeotia where the Greek navy rallied before setting off against Troy... , Schoenus Schoenus A schoenus or schoinos is a historical unit of itinerant distance once common throughout the Mediterranean.The Greeks, who adopted it from the Egyptians, considered the schoinos equal to 40 Stadia .... , Scolus, Eteonus, Thespeia, Graia, Mycalessus, Harma, Eilesium, Erythrae Erythrae Erythrae or Erythrai later Litri, was one of the Ionian League Ionian cities of Asia Minor, situated 22 km north-east of the port of Cyssus , on a small peninsula stretching into the Bay of Erythrae, at an equal distance from the mountains Mimas and Corycus , and directly opposite the island of Chios.... , Eleon, Hyle Hyle In philosophy, hyle refers to materialism or stuff. It can also be the material cause underlying a change in Aristotelian philosophy. The Greeks originally had no word for matter in general, as opposed to raw material suitable for some specific purpose or other, so Aristotle adapted the word for "lumber" for this purpose.... , Peteon, Ocalea Ocalea (town) Ocalea was a town in antiquity in Boeotia, Greece, on the south shore of Lake Copais.Ocalea lay roughly halfway between Alalcomenae and Aliartos , about 30 Ancient Greek weights and measures from each.... , Medeon Medeon Medeon is a municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. Population 5,050 . The seat of the municipality is in Katouna.... , Copae, Eutresis, Thisbe, Coronea, Haliartus Aliartos Aliartos is a municipality in the Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 109 kilometres from Athens. Population 6,351 . The center of Kopais valley. Its name comes from the ancient city of Haliartus.... , Plataea Plataea Plataea or Plataeae was an ancient city, located in Greece in southeastern Boeotia, south of Thebes . It was the location of the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, in which an alliance of Greek city-states defeated the Persian Empire and ended the Persian Wars.... , Glisas, Thebes Thebes, Greece Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, Greece, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain.... , Onchestus, Arne Arne In Greek mythology, Arne or Melanippe was a daughter of Aeolus and Melanippe , daughter of Chiron. Poseidon fathered Aeolus and Boeotus with her while he was in the form of a Cattle.... , Midea Midea Midea is a China electronics manufacturer located in Shunde, Guangdong. In 2002, the enterprise employed a total of more than 20,000 people in China.... , Nisa Nisa Nisa may refer to these following topics:... , Anthedon Anthedon (mythology) In Greek mythology, there were several people named Anthedon.Anthedon is possibly the father of Glaucus, a sea god ? whose mother might have been Alcyone....
2.511	Minyans Minyans According to Greek mythology, the Minyans were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region. However, the extent to which the prehistory of the Aegean world is reflected in literary accounts of legendary peoples is subject to repeated revision....	30	Ascalaphus Ascalaphus In Greek mythology, two people share the name Ascalaphus .#Son of Acheron and Orphne. He told the other gods that Persephone had eaten a pomegranate in Hades.... , Ialmenus	Aspledon, Orchomenus Orchomenus Orchomenus is a name attributed to the following:...
2.517	Phoceans Phocis Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....	40	Schedius Schedius Schedius was a name attributed to four individuals in Greek mythology.*Schedius was the son of Iphitus and brother of Epistrophus. In the Iliad, he and his brother lead the Phocians on the side of the Achaeans in the Trojan War.... , Epistrophus Epistrophus In the Iliad, Epistrophus was the son of Iphitus and brother of Schedius. Together with his brother he led the Phocians on the side of the Achaeans in the Trojan War....	Cyparissus Cyparissus In Greek mythology, the myth set in Chios tells of Cyparissus , a young boy and son of Telephus. Though the mythic context and the setting is Hellenic, the subject is essentially known from Hellenizing Latin literature and Pompeiian frescoes.... , Pytho, Crisa CRISA Computadores, Redes e Ingenier?a, S.A. is a Spanish company founded in 1985 to develop and manufacture electronics and software products for aerospace applications.... , Daulis Daulis Daulis was an ancient Ancient Greece city in Phocis. According to Greek mythology, Daulis was the hometown of Tereus. The city is mentioned by Homer and it is said to be named after a nymph Daulis, a daughter of the river-god Cephissus.... , Panopeus Panopeus Panopeus , or Phanoteus , was an ancient Greek town of Phocis, near the frontier of Boeotia, and on the road from Daulis to Chaeronea. Pausanias said that Panopeus was 20 stades from Chaeronea and 7 from Daulis; but the latter number is almost certainly a mistake.... , Anemorea, Hyampolis, river Cephissus Cephissus Cephissus or Cephisus is the name of several rivers in Greece.* Cephissus , a river arising in Phocis and flowing through northern Boeotia into Lake Copais.... , Lilaea Lilaea In Greek mythology, Lilaea was a Naiads who lived in the Cephissus River. The town of Lilaea in Phocis and the asteroid 213 Lilaea are named after her....
2.527	Locrians Locris Locris was a region of ancient Greece, the homeland of the Locrians, made up of two districts. Opuntian Locris or Eastern Locris was on the mainland coast stretching from Thermopylae to Larymna, opposite Euboea, while Ozolian Locris or Western Locris was on the northern coast of the Corinthian Gulf between Naupactus and Crisa, going inland...	40	Ajax the Lesser Ajax the Lesser Ajax was a Greeks Greek mythology hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax , son of Telamon....	Cynus, Opoüs Opus, Greece Opus , in Ancient Greece, the chief city of Opuntian or Opuntian Locris. It was located on the coast of mainland Greece opposite Euboea, perhaps at modern Atalandi.... , Calliatus, Bessa, Scarphe, Augeae, Tarphe, Thronium Thronium Thronium or Thronion was an ancient Greece city of the Euboian-Lokrians in Epirus.References...
2.537	Abantes of Euboea Euboea For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....	40	Elephenor Elephenor In Greek mythology, Elephenor was the son of Chalcodon and king of the Abantes of Euboea. He received the sons of Theseus of Athens, Acamas and Demophon, when they fled the usurper Menestheus....	Chalcis Chalcis Chalcis or Chalkida, Halkida, Halkis or Chalkis , the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point.... , Eretria Eretria Eretria was a polis in Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea , south of Chalcis, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboian Gulf.... , Histiaea, Cerinthus Cerinthus Cerinthus was an gnostic and to some, an early Christian, who was prominent as a "heresiarch" in the view of the early Church Fathers. Contrary to proto-orthodox Christianity, Cerinthus's school followed the Jewish law, denied that the Supreme God had made the physical world, and denied the divinity of Jesus.... , Dium, Carystus Carystus Carystus was a city-state that refused to join the Delian League. The Athenians wanted Carystus to join the Delian League, but seeming as though it had been under Persian control, they refused.... , Styra Styra Styra is a town on the southwestern shore of Euboea, facing the eastern shore of Attica across the Evoikos Gulf. Nowadays it can be reached by ferryboat from the tiny harbor of Aghia Marina, as well as by road from Chalkida ....
2.546	Athenians Athens Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....	50	Led first by Menestheus Menestheus Menestheus , the son of Peteus, son of Orneus, son of Erechtheus, was a legendary King of Athens during the Trojan War. He was set up as king by the Dioscuri when Theseus travelled to the underworld, and at his return Menestheus exiled him from the city.... (then by later by Acamas Acamas Acamas was a name attributed to several characters in Greek mythology. The following three all fought in the Trojan War, and only the first was not mentioned by Homer.... and Demophon Demophon In Greek mythology, Demophon referred to two different persons:*Demophon , a king of Athens, Greece, according to Pindar, son of Theseus and half brother of Acamas, fought in the Trojan War and was one of those to be in the Trojan Horse... , the sons of Theseus Theseus For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra , and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night.... )	Athens Athens Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
2.557	men of Salamis Salamis Salamis may refer to* Salamis Island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, near Athens, Greece* Battle of Salamis, fought at Salamis Island in 480 B.C....	12	Telamonian Ajax Ajax (mythology) Ajax or Aias was a Greek mythology, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis Island. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War....	Salamis Salamis Salamis may refer to* Salamis Island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, near Athens, Greece* Battle of Salamis, fought at Salamis Island in 480 B.C....
2.559	Argives/Achaeans Achaeans The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....	80	Diomedes Diomedes Diomedes or Diomed is a hero in Greek mythology, mostly known for his participation in the Trojan War. He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his grandfather, Adrastus.... with subordinates Sthenelus Sthenelus In Greek mythology, Sthenelus was a name attributed to four different individuals.Sthenelus of Perseus and Andromeda .Son of Capaneus and Evadne.... and Euryalus Euryalus Euryalus refers to two different characters from classical literature:#In the Aeneid by Virgil, Nisus and Euryalus are ideal friends, who died during a raid on the Rutulians....	Argos Argos Argos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour, named for Nauplius .... , Tiryns Tiryns Tiryns is a Mycenaean civilization archaeological site in the Greece Prefectures of Greece of Argolis in the Peloponnese peninsula, some kilometres north of Nauplion.... , Hermione Hermione Hermione is a female given name and may refer to:PersonsHermione of Ephesus , an early Christian martyrHermione Baddeley , English actress... , Asine Asine Asine was an ancient Ancient Greece city of Argolis, which was the first city mentioned by Homer as part of the kingdom of Diomedes, king of Argos.... , Troezene, E?onae, Epidaurus Epidaurus Epidaurus was a small city in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros , part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site.... , Aegina Aegina Aegina is one of the Greek islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 17 miles from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island.... , Mases
2.569	No name given.	100	Agamemnon Agamemnon In Greek mythology, Agamemnon / is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of Mycenae or of Argos.... , king of Mycenae, supreme commander	Mycenae Mycenae Mycenae , is an archaeology in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north.... , Corinth Corinth Corinth, or Korinth Corinth is now the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Corinthia. The city is surrounded by the coastal townlets of Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site.... , Cleonae Cleonae Cleonae or Cleon? or Kleonai may refer to any of several ancient cities, including:Cleonae formerly Cleonae, in Argolis, now in Corinthia, Greece... , Orneae, Araethyrea, Sicyon Sicyon Sikyon* was an ancient Greece city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth, Greece and Achaea. The king-list given by Pausanias comprises twenty-four kings, beginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus; the penultimate king of the list, Agamemnon, compels the submission of Sicyon to Mycenae; after him comes the Dorian usurper Pha... , Hyperesia Hyperesia Hyperesia was an ancient city in Achaea in modern Aigeira.It was founded by Pelasgian settlers, later the city along with many others and all of Achaea were settled by Ionians and later the Achaeans arrived from Tisamenus.... , Gonoëssa Gonoessa Gonoessa was an ancient city in ancient Achaia that is now in the Corinthia prefecture, Greece.Gonoessa was first mentioned by Homer in his Iliad.... , Pellene, Aegium, Helice
2.581	Lacedaemonians Sparta Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the Eurotas River in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From circa 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars....	60	Menelaus Menelaus Menelaus may refer to;Menelaus, one of the two most known Atrides, a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and AeropeMenelaus on the Moon, named after Menelaus of Alexandria.... , brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen Helen In Greek mythology, Helen , better known as Helen of Sparta later Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda , wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Pollux, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra....	Pharis, Sparta Sparta Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the Eurotas River in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From circa 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars.... , Messe Messé Mess? is a village and Communes of the Deux-S?vres department in the Deux-S?vres departments of France of western France.... , Bryseae, Augeae, Amyclae, Helos, Laas Laas Laas may refer to:... , Oetylus
2.592	No name given.	90	Nestor Nestor (mythology) In Greek mythology, Nestor of Ger?nia was the son of Neleus and Chloris, and the King of Pylos. He became king after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's brothers and sisters....	Pylos Pylos This article is about the Greek geographical feature and town. For the mythological figure see Pylus . For board game see Pylos .Pylos, or P?los , is a large bay and a town on the west coast of the Peloponnese, in the district of Messenia in southern Greece.... , Arene Arene Arene or Ar?n? or Ar?ne may refer to:an aromatic hydrocarbonArene , the wife of Aphareus and mother of Idas and Lynceus in Greek mythology... , Thryum, Aipy Aipy Aipy or Typaneai was an ancient city in Elis, the modern Ilia Prefecture, Greece. It was one of the oldest cities in Elis and was a member of the Minyae which had six cities, it was located near Makistos and according to Homer, they were prepared for the Trojan War.... , Cyparisseis, Amphigenea, Pteleum, Helos, Dorium
2.603	Arcadia Arcadia Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas.... ns	60	Agapenor Agapenor Agapenor was in Greek mythology a leader of the Arcadians in the Trojan war. He was a son of Ancaeus#Ancaeus of Arcadia, and grandson of Lycurgus ....	Cyllene, Pheneus, Orchomenus Orchomenus Orchomenus is a name attributed to the following:... , Rhipae, Stratie Stratie Stratie was an ancient city in Arcadia.It was a Homeric and prehistoric city and was mentioned only by Homer and was mentioned in the Second Rhapsodies of the Iliad.... , Enispe Enispe Enispe was an ancient city in Ancient ArcadiaIt was Homeric, a prehistoric city that was mentioned only by Homer. It was collaborated with ther remainder of Arcadians in the Trojan War including the commander known as Agapenor.... , Tegea Tegea Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece, and it is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village Stadio.Ancient Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea.... , Mantinea, Stymphelus, Parrhasia
2.615	Epeans of Elis Elis Elis, or Eleia is an ancient district, that corresponds with the modern Elis Prefecture. It is in southern Greece on the Peloponnesos peninsula, bounded on the north by Achaea, east by Arcadia, south by Messenia, and west by the Ionian Sea....	40	Amphimachus Amphimachus In Greek mythology, Amphimachus is a name attributed to multiple individuals.... , Thalpius, Diores Diores In Greek mythology, Dior?s referred to two different people.One was the father of Automedon.One was the son of Amarynceus Diores is also the name of an Diores .... , Polyxenus Polyxenus In Greek mythology, Polyxenus was one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the first to learn the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries.In Biology, Polyxenus is a genus of millipede, which are covered with detachable barbed bristles to defend against predators....	Buprasium and the lands enclosed by Hyrmine, Myrsinus, Olene Olene The Brown Tussock Moth Olene sp is a species of moth found in India, Taiwan , Borneo and Australia.... , Alesium
2.624	Men of Dulichium Dulichium Dulichium, Dolicha, or Doliche was a place noted by numerous ancient writers that was either a city on, or an island off, the Ionian Sea coast of Acarnania, Greece....	40	Meges	Dulichium Dulichium Dulichium, Dolicha, or Doliche was a place noted by numerous ancient writers that was either a city on, or an island off, the Ionian Sea coast of Acarnania, Greece.... , Echinean Islands
2.631	Cephallenians	12	Ulysses, same as Odysseus Odysseus Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....	Ithaca Ithaca Ithaca or Ithaka is an island in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 118 km? and three thousand inhabitants. It is an independent Communities and Municipalities of Greece of the prefecture of Kefalonia and Ithaka Prefecture, and lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia.... , Neritum, Crocylea, Aegilips, Samos Samos Island Samos is a Greece island in the North Aegean sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the Ionian coast of Turkey.... , Zacynthus (islands with mainland opposite)
2.638	Aetolia Aetolia Aetolia is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern prefectures of Greece of Aetolia-Acarnania.... ns	40	Thoas Thoas Thoas , son of Andraimon, was one of the heroes who fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War. He was a former suitor of Helen of Troy and led a group of forty ships for the Aetolians, one of the larger contingents....	Pleuron Pleuron Pleuron may refer to:Birthplace of Alexander Aetolus A son of Aetolus, son of Endymion in Greek mythology In zoological morphology, pleuron may also refer to:... , Olenus Olenus In Greek mythology, Olenus was the name of several individuals:#Olenus was the son of Hephaestus and father of Helice and Aex. A city was named for him.... , Pylene, Chalcis Chalcis Chalcis or Chalkida, Halkida, Halkis or Chalkis , the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point.... , Calydon Calydon Calydon was an ancient Greece city in Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus. According to Greek mythology, the city took its name from its founder Calydon, son of Aetolus, son of Endymion....
2.645	Cretans Crete Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....	80	Idomeneus Idomeneus In Greek mythology, Idomeneus was a Crete warrior, father of Orsilochus, son of Deucalion , grandson of Minos and king of Crete. He led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War and was also one of Helen's suitors.... , Meriones Meriones (mythology) In Greek mythology, Meriones was a son of Molus and Melphis. Molus was a half-brother of Idomeneus. Like other heroes of mythology, Meriones was said to be a direct descendant of gods....	Cnossus, Gortys, Lyctus Lyctus Lyctus or Lyttos , was one of the most considerable cities in ancient Crete, which appears in the Homer Catalog of ships.... , Miletus Miletus Miletus was an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia , near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria. Evidence of first settlement at the site has been made inaccessible by the rise of sea level and deposition of sediments from the Maeander.... , Lycastus, Phaestus, Rhytium, others up to 100
2.653	Rhodians Rhodes Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....	9	Tlepolemus Tlepolemus Tlepolemus, or Tl?p?lemos, in Greek mythology was the son of Heracles by Astyocheia, daughter of the King of Ephyra. Either that or he was the son of Melite and the second of the two sons of Hercules who goes by the name of Hyllus....	Lindus, Ielysus Ialysos Ialysos , also known as Trianta, is the second-largest town on the island of Rhodes in Greece. It has a population of approximately 12,000, and is located 8 kilometres southwest of the Rhodes, Greece, the island's capital, on the island's northwestern coast.... , Cameirus
2.671	Symians Symi Symi is a small but historic Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece....	3	Nireus Nireus In Greek mythology, Nireus was a name attributed to the following individuals:*Nireus was a son of Poseidon and Canace.*Nireus was a son of Aglaea and Charopus....	Syme Syme Syme is a surname, and may refer to:* Sir Colin Syme, Australian medical administrator and innovator* David Syme* David Syme * Ebenezer Syme...
2.676	No name given.	30	Pheidippus, Antiphus Antiphus In Greek mythology, Antiphus is a name attributed to multiple individuals:In the Iliad, Antiphus, or ?ntiphos* ,one of the 50 sons of Priam, and son of Hecuba....	Nisyrus Nisyros Nisyros is a Volcano Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between the islands of Kos and Tilos.... , Crapathus Karpathos Karpathos is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. The island is comprised of the Communities and Municipalities of Greece of Karpathos plus the community of Olympos, Karpathos.... , Casus Kasos Kasos is a Greece island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea. As of 2001, its population was 990.... , Cos Kos Kos or Cos is a Greece island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of G?kova. It measures 40 km by 8 km, and is only 4 km from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria.... , Calydnian Islands
2.681	Pelasgians Pelasgians The name Pelasgians was used by some Ancient Greece writers to refer to populations that preceded the Greeks in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably autochthonous people in the Greek world." During the Classical Greece enclaves under that name resided in several locations of mainland Greece, Crete and other regi... , Myrmidons Myrmidons The Myrmidons were an ancient tribe of Greek mythology. They were very brave and skilled warriors as described in Homer's Iliad, and were commanded by Achilles.... , Hellenes, Achaeans Achaeans The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....	50	Achilles Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles.... (later by Neoptolemus Neoptolemus In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus was the son of the warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia . Achilles' mother foretold many years before Achilles birth that there would be a great war.... )	Pelasgic Argos Pelasgians The name Pelasgians was used by some Ancient Greece writers to refer to populations that preceded the Greeks in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably autochthonous people in the Greek world." During the Classical Greece enclaves under that name resided in several locations of mainland Greece, Crete and other regi... , Alos Alos Alos can be:Alos, Greece, an ancient city in GreeceAlos, Ari?ge, a commune of FranceAlos, Tarn, a commune of FranceALOS , an initialism used in managed health care, meaning "average length of stay"... , Alope Alope For other uses see Alope In Greek mythology, Alop? was a mortal woman, daughter of Cercyon. Poseidon had an affair with Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, begetting Hippothoon.... , Trachis Trachis Trachis was a region in ancient Greece. Situated south of the river Spercheios, it was populated by the Malians .Its main town was also called Trachis until 426 BC, when it became Heraclea Trachinia.... , Phthia Phthia Founded by Aiakos, grandfather of Achilles, it was the home of his father Peleus and his sea-nymph mother Thetis.Phthia is also an area in the 1988 Nintendo game "The Battle of Olympus," a playable level where the dragon Ladon and the god Hephaestus make their homes.... , Hellas
2.695	No name given.	40	Protesilaus Protesilaus In Greek mythology, Protesilaus , was a hero in the Iliad who was venerated in Thessaly and Thrace. Protesilaus was the son of Iphicles and the leader of the Phylaceans.... , later by Podarces Podarces In Greek mythology, Podarces was a son of Iphicles and brother of Protesilaus. In Homer Iliad, Podarces and Protesilaus were former suitors of Helen, and therefore bound to defend the marriage rights of Menelaus, her husband, when Helen was kidnapped by Paris ....	Phylace Phylace Phylace was a Thessalian city west of the Gulf of Pagasae. In History of Ancient Greece, Phylace was a kingdom. Its king, Protesilaus, was the first Greek hero killed in the Trojan War.... , Pyrasus, Iton Iton The Iton is a Rivers of France in Normandy, France, left tributary of the Eure River. Its source is near Moulins-la-Marche. For about 10 km between Orvaux and Glisolles, it disappears and pursues a subterranean course.... , Antrium, Pteleum
2.711	No name given.	11	Eumelus Eumelus Eumelus was the name of:Eumelus of Corinth, an epic poet of the second half of the eighth century BCSeveral men in Greek mythology:**A Eumelus succeeded Admetus as the King of Pherae....	Pherae Pherae Pherae was an ancient Greek town in southeastern Thessaly. In mythology, it was the home of King Admetus, whose wife, Alcestis, Heracles went into Hades to rescue.... , Boebe, Glaphyrae, Iolcus
2.716	No name given.	7, with 50 oarsmen each who were also archers	Philoctetes Philoctetes In Greek mythology, Philoctetes was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War.... , later by Medon Medôn In Greek mythology, there were three people called Medon .#An Ithacan herald who was polite towards Penelope when all of her suitors were rude....	Methone Methone Methone can refer to:* Methone , one of the seven Alkyonides, daughters of the giant Alkyoneus in Greek mythologyMethone , a small moon of Saturn, discovered in 2004... , Thaumacia, Meliboea Meliboea In Greek mythology, Meliboea* was a name attributed to three individuals:*The wife of Magnes , who named the town of Meliboea in Thessaly after her.... , Olizon
2.729	No name given.	30	Podalirius Podalirius In Greek mythology, Podalirius or Podalarius was a son of Asclepius. With Machaon, his brother, he led thirty ships from Thessaly in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks.... , Machaon Machaon Machaon may refer to:... , two sons of Asclepius Asclepius Asclepius is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Aglaea and Panacea symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine, and healing, respectively....	Tricca Tricca Tricca is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Thessaly, a suffragan of Larissa. In 1882, this portion of Thessaly was annexed to the Kingdom of Greece.... , Ithome Ithome Mount Ithome is mountain in Messenia, Greece that rises to about 800 m. As the most defensible point in the territory, it was the center of Messenian resistance during the Messenian Wars in the 6th century BC.... , Oechalia
2.734	No name given.	40	Eurypylus Eurypylus In Greek mythology, Eurypylus was the name of several different people....	Ormenius, Hypereia (fountain), Asterius Asterius The name "Asterius" may refetr to:* Asterion, name of two sacred kings of Crete.* Asterius of Amasia, bishop of Amasia, later in the 4th century.... , Titanus Titanus Titanus is an Italy film production company, founded in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo . The company's headquarters are located at 28 Via Sommacampagna, Rome and its studios on the Via Tiburtina, 13 km from the centre of Rome....
2.738	(Lapiths, "race of Mars")	40	Polypoetes, Leonteus	Argissa Argissa Magoula Argissa Magoula is a Neolithic settlement mound in Thessaly in Greece. It was excavated by Vladimir Milojcic from the University of Heidelberg in the 1950s.... , Gyrtone, Orthe Orthe *Orthe* is a series of science-fiction novels by Mary Gentle.The Orthe series consists of the books Golden Witchbreed and Ancient Light and the short story The Crystal Sunlight, the Bright Air .... , Elone, Oloösson
2.748	Enienes, Peraebi	22	Guneus Guneus In Greek mythology, Guneus was the leader of the Aenienians and Perrhaebians during the Trojan War. Says Homer: "Guneus brought two and twenty ships from Cyphus, and he was followed by the Enienes and the valiant Peraebi, who dwelt about wintry Dodona." Guneus survived the war, and went to Libya and settled near the Cinyps river....	Cyphus, Dodona (Thessalian), Gonnos Gonnoi Gonnoi or Gonni , Roman and Ancient form: Gonnus, Greek form: Gonnos is a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture, Greece. Population 3,119 ,.The municipality was created under the Kapodistrias Law in 1997 out of the former communes of Gonnoi, Kallipefki, Itea and Elia.... , banks of the Titaresius Titaresios The Titarisios , older form: Xerias is one of the major rivers in Thessaly and is also one of the major tributaries of the Pineios River ....
2.756	Magnetes Magnesia Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....	40	Prothoüs	About the Peneus Peneus In Greek mythology, Peneus was a river god, one of the three-thousand Rivers, a child of Oceanus and Tethys . The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths, and three daughters, Cyrene, Daphne, and Stilbe... and Mt. Pelion Pelion Pelion or Pelium is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea....

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