The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring…

agentofdeterioration : The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and…