The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called βboring as hell,β but I canβt help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, βanybody here tonight from Chicago?β and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering
Homerβs like, βand there were forty black ships fromβ¦ LOCRISβ and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts
























