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The list includes the Trojans themselves, led by Hector, and various allies. Phthires, streams of the Maeander, crest of Mycale Pyraechmes ( Asteropaios is also recognized as a leader in book XXI)Ĭytorus, Sesamus, along the river Parthenius, Cromna, Aegialus, Erythini Percote, Practius, Sestus, Abydus, Arisbe They lived in 33 places identified by toponyms.Īdresteia, Apaesus, Pityeia, Mount Tereia The catalogue lists 16 contingents from 12 ethnonyms under 26 leaders ( Luce 1975). Another like it appears in the Cypria ( Burgess 2004, p. 138). Page cites several more subtle instances of the disconnectedness of the Trojan catalog from the Iliad neither is it connected to the catalog of Greek forces. 2.827 Apollo gives Pandaros his bow at 4.105 ff it is made by a craftsman.

At 2.858 the Mysians live in Asia Minor at 13.5, Thrace.2.858 the Mysians are commanded by Chromis and Ennomus at 14.511 ff. The major Trojan leaders: Priam, Paris, Helenus and a few others do not appear in the catalog at all.Of the 26 Trojans in the catalog, only 5 appear among the 216 in the Iliad.There is also some internal evidence that the Trojan catalogue was not part of the Iliad but was a distinct composition pre-dating the Trojan War and incorporated later into the Iliad ( 3, p. 140): Hecataeus supposes it was the prior name of Latmus.

The catalog mentions Mount Phthires near Miletus and the Maeander.

Alybe in the catalog is the birthplace of silver, yet Hecataeus, the Ionian geographer, does not know where it is.

Some examples of Mycenaean knowledge are ( 3, pp. 141–143): Noting that the Greek catalogue occupies 265 lines but the Trojan catalogue only 61, Page wonders why the Ionian authors know so little about their native land and concludes they are not describing it but are reforming poetry inherited in oral form from Mycenaean times ( 3, pp. 137–139). Denys Page summarizes the prevailing explanation that "the Catalogues are substantially Mycenaean compositions rather expanded than altered by the Ionians" ( 3, pp. 153–154). Structurally the Trojan Battle Order is evidently inserted to balance the preceding Catalogue of Ships. The catalogue is noted for its deficit of detail compared to the immediately preceding Catalogue of Ships, which lists the Greek contingents, and for the fact that only a few of the many Trojans mentioned in the Iliad appear there. The Trojan Battle Order or Trojan Catalogue is an epic catalogue in the second book of the Iliad listing the allied contingents that fought for Troy in the Trojan War.