Why is the Iliad's catalogue of ships a pleb filter? IIRC it was just a fairly boring instance of a primarily illiterate culture's historical record keeping, not unlike the "X begat Y" in the Hebrew Bible. Is TFA claiming it is excellent literature masquerading as repetitious trivia? If so, a better example imo would have been the chapter from Moby Dick which is solely devoted to the whiteness of the whale.