The Level Of Over Descriptions In Homer's Odyssey

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I chose this out of about four pages of things like this over and over again because it was the shortest one. I'd like to analyze why it's important. It isn't I had to go through four pages of Greek names for no reason 99% of these names I never saw again and the ones I did I either already knew or saw them for two seconds as they died. In what world is putting in four pages of of describing every ship in your army necessary it's like looking at a bush and detailing every single branch on the bush, it's too much information and in the end it's still just a bush. Homer it's still just an army.

I'm utterly baffled at why this level of over description is at all necessary, in a book that in some translations is already over six hundred pages.