AI rebuilds the Iliad's Catalogue of Ships as an interactive 3D map with 1,186 vessels
eldonredwards · x · 2026-09-03
- Ethan Mollick showcased a digital humanities demo: using GPT with Code Interpreter to parse the Catalogue of Ships from Iliad Book 2, extracting the origins of the Greek contingents and building an interactive map.
- That grew into homer-catalogue-of-ships.netlify.app, which places all 29 contingents, 46 captains, 178 place-names and 1,186 ships on a map, and rebuilds Homer's warships in 3D from archaeological evidence — browsable ship by ship, alongside the Greek text.
- Layers add the voyage to Aulis and Troy, Trojan allies, and Mycenaean sites. Mollick: "Digital humanities is about to be wild" — a showcase of an agent workflow (extract → verify against archaeology → generate → revise) for scholarly visualization.
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