Twenty-nine Achaean contingents, forty-six named captains, one hundred and eighty towns, and one thousand one hundred and eighty-six ships drawn up on the beach at Troy — followed by the sixteen peoples who came to defend the city against them.
Ten tongues were mine, ten mouths, a voice unbreakable, and a heart of bronze within me, unless the Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Zeus, remembered for me all who came under Ilion. 2.489–492
The Catalogue's real content is not the total but its distribution: 1,186 ships shared out very unevenly among twenty-nine peoples. Drawn to scale, the roll shows what the verse states only in passing — that Agamemnon led by far the most men, and that the war's second-best fighter brought twelve hulls.
Compiled from this project's line-for-line translation of Book 2, one entry per contingent, each keyed to its Greek line numbers. Ship totals are the poem's own; they sum to the traditional 1,186. The Trojan roll gives no ship counts — the allies came overland, and the poet counts them in peoples rather than hulls.