Ilium

Examples

• All

• "that wrecked a thousand ships... and burned the towerless tops of Ilium?"

  Stagecoach (1939)

• Black Man by Richard Morgan, Ilium by Dan Simmons

  Blog text (19)

• I was a poet and saying that just son of Anchises in years who came from Troy after proud Ilium was burned by you.

• My nominations for the best because they are! Ilium by Dan Simmons (2003) -- my favorite of 2009 when I read it!

  Blog text (19)

• "All of Mytilene they visited and nearby Tiryns, Dicte, and Ilium.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Ilium by Dan Simmons

  Blog text (19)

• The Sack of Ilium apparently places this event after the horse had already been brought into town.

• But the account in the Sack of Ilium, which records Aeneas' departure, strikes a more credible note.

• We visited Ilium, where the ill-fated Trojans made the poor choice of accepting the Greek's four-legged gift.

Synonyms

T

Troy

vsIlium

146 6.8

An ancient city in western Turkey famous as the site of the Trojan War

is the northwest Asia Minor classical literature name for that city

I

Ilion

vsIlium

• Literature

9.9

An ancient city in what is now Turkey that was the site of the Trojan War

is the classical literature name referring to the same northwest Asia Minor city

Compounds

A

arteria circumflexa ilium

• Specialized

9.9

A blood vessel that gives blood to the lower belly wall, skin, and front thigh muscle

V

vena circumflexa ilium

• Specialized

9.9

A vein in the pelvic area that runs beside its matching artery and drains blood from near the hip

Surface Forms

Etymology