Ships of the Achaeans
object · 3 works · 16 mentions · 48 anchored passages
the ships · ships · ships of the Achaeans · their ships · the fleet · the ships of the Achaeans · a ship · assembly of ships · empty ships · his tall ships
spoken of as
2 expressionsAchaean ships9 mentions
Iliad (Greek) · The Trojan Women (Greek) · Hecuba (Greek)
he is gone home to his own land with empty ships, and has left Menelaos behind him.
The Achaean Ships3 mentions
Iliad (Greek) · Hecuba (Greek)
I will draw my ships into the water and then victual them duly;
in the texts
Iliad
The beached fleet that carried the Achaeans to Troy, serving as camp, as the object of the near-desertion, and as the unit by which the catalogue counts each contingent's strength.
Of these there came fifty ships.
With him there came forty ships.
With these there came eighty ships.
Hecuba
The Achaean fleet, stalled at the Chersonese by Achilles' demand and later invoked as the means both of the army's homeward voyage and the captive women's transport into slavery.
Meanwhile all the Achaeans sit idly here in their ships at the shores of Thrace;
O breeze, breeze of the sea, that wafts swift galleys, ocean’s coursers, across the surging main!
grant that we may loose our prows and the cables of our ships, and, meeting with a prosperous voyage from Ilium, all come to our country.
The Trojan Women
The Achaean fleet's ships, which originally carried the invaders to Troy and will later carry the captives away and be destroyed in the gods' planned storm.
Lose no further time in watching for a favoring breeze to fill your sails, doomed as you are to carry from this land one of the three avenging spirits.
You swift-prowed ships, rowed to sacred Ilium over the deep dark sea, past the fair havens of Hellas, to the flute’s ill-omened music and the dulcet voice of pipes, to the bays of Troy, alas!