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The Trojan Battle Order or Trojan Catalogue is an epic catalogue the second book of the ''Iliad''〔Lines 816-877.〕 listing the allied contingents that fought for Troy in the Trojan War. 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. ==Historicity question== Structurally the Trojan Battle Order is evidently inserted to balance the preceding Catalogue of Ships. It is, however, much shorter. Denys Page summarizes the prevailing explanation that "the Catalogues are substantially Mycenaean compositions rather expanded than altered by the Ionians" . 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 . Some examples of Mycenaean knowledge are : *Alybe in the catalog is the birthplace of silver, yet Hecataeus, the Ionian geographer, does not know where it is. *The catalog mentions Mount Phthires near Miletus and the Maeander. Hecataeus supposes it was the prior name of Latmus. 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'' : *Of the 26 Trojans in the catalog, only 5 appear among the 216 in the ''Iliad''. *The major Trojan leaders: Priam, Paris, Helenus and a few others do not appear in the catalog at all. * At ''Il''. 2.858 the Mysians are commanded by Chromis and Ennomos; at 14.511 ff. by Gyrtios. * At 2.858 the Mysians live in Asia Minor; at 13.5, Thrace. * At. 2.827 Apollo gives Pandaros his bow; at 4.105 ff it is made by a craftsman. 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. Another like it appears in the ''Cypria'' . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trojan Battle Order」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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