I blame it for why I have not been introduced.
Greek I am learning to decipher that famous passage of Homer concerning names of places and how many men and ships they had and too many names of generals to remember afterwards. A passage so tedious and yet a part of our great literature surely must hold some secret!
You who know me from the Academy, you also know of my relationship with donuts and maybe fish.
And this is the last you will hear of me outside that philosopher-place
Z.T.G.
Hi, and good to see you back! 
Are you referring to the Catalogue of Ships? You know, I always thought there had to be more to it myself - I mean, to us modern readers it might seem unspeakably dull, but surely the Greeks must have felt it had some significant purpose…
Well, doesn’t the catalog of ships also say who sailed in them and where they came from? This would let future city-states point to the list and say “See? We were THERE!” Pride in ancestry and all that… I imagine that if you left one of the ships out, and someone from, or with ancestors from, that particular city heard you, he’d have a thing or two to say about it…
Kilmeny