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Map of Homeric Greece. 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 composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
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Link to the Odyssey on Perseus Project by book and line or range of lines. Adding the last line in range does not change the link URL, since the number of lines on one page is determined by Perseus. The first parameter is language: gr or el for Greek, en for English. Normally the template does not display the name of author and work.
Athenian sacred ships; B. Bireme; C. Celox (boat) I. Ivlia (ship) P. Paralus (ship) Penteconter; S. Salaminia; T. Trireme This page was last edited on 13 October 2019 ...
Lists of Greek ships include: List of Greece-flagged cargo ships; List of active Hellenic Navy ships. List of current Greek frigates;
The Iliad, book II, in the Catalogue of Ships, contains a different list of islands comprising Odysseus's kingdom. Same is included together with Ithaca, Neritum, Krocylea, Aegilips and Zacynthus, indicating that the "Catalogue of Ships" could be a later addition to the Iliad. In Homer's Odyssey, there is an interesting geographical description:
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The Delian League, also known as the Athenian Empire, was a collection of Greek city-states largely based around the Aegean Sea which operated under the hegemony of Athens. This alliance initially served the purpose of coordinating a united Greek front against a perceived looming Persian threat against the Ionian city-states which bordered it ...