Ilion or Ilium : Troy as the city of Ilus (q.v.)
... lolaus, as one of his twelve labors. Ida: A mountain in northwest Asia Minor, southeast of the site of ancient Troy. It was a seat of Zeus, who directed the Trojan War from there. Ilion: or Ilium, a name of Troy as the city of Ilus. lonians: A section of the ancient Greek people; they inhabited the south of Greece before the Dorian invasion sent many of them across the Aegean ...
... inhabitants fought as Trojan allies. Tripod: a vessel on three legs. Trojan, son of Priam. Troilus: Trojan, son of Priam. Troy: This city (also called Troas or Ilios or Ilion or Ilium) was located on the western shore of modern Turkey directly on the trade routes between Greece and the Middle East (see map p. 17). This, strategic location put Troy in a position to levy tolls ...
... had nine lives. According to Schliemann, the ruins of the second city belong to Homer's Troy; current opinion identifies the sixth city with Homer's 1 Troy also known as Troas, Ilios, Ilion, Ilium. Page 16 Troy and we are assured that that city had perished by fire, shortly after 1200 BC. Greek historians traditionally assigned the Siege of Troy to 1194-1184 BC. Geographically... Homer and the Iliad, Sri Aurobindo and Ilion -03_Homer and the Iliad.htm Homer and the Iliad A Brief Note I H omer is the name attached by the Greeks of ancient times themselves to the two great epic poems, Iliad and Odyssey. Unfortunately, not much is known of him, but there is no doubt that there was indeed an epic poet called Homer ...
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