The
Catalogue of Ships (,
neon katalogos) is an
epic catalogue in Book 2 of
Homer's
Iliad (2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the
Achaean army that sailed to
Troy. The 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 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. A similar, though shorter,
Catalogue of the Trojans and their allies follows (2.816–877). A similar catalogue appears in the
Pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheca.