Ilyam, Ilyum
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Iliad: The epic Greek poem attributed to Homer. The word Iliad means "pertaining to Ilion" (Latin: Ilium), the name of the city proper, as opposed to Troy (Greek: Τροία, Troía; Latin: Troja), the state centered around Ilium, over which Priam reigned. The names are often used interchangeably. See Shakespeare, Trolius and Cressida (Act V, scene viii) "So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down! " Iliad
- "Ilion, Ilion:" from Horaces Odes III,2 : "Ilion, Ilion, fatalis incestusque iudex et mulier peregrina vertit in pulverem" (Ilium, Ilium, has been reduced to rubble by that calamitous and polluted judge and a foreign woman.)
- "Ilion, Ilion:" a poem (1830) by Alfred Tennyson, which begins "Ilion, Ilion, dreamy Ilion, pillared Ilion, holy Ilion."
- The fall of Troy is closely linked to that of the house of Atreus through Agamemnon and Menelaus s, with teh eventual fall of the House of Atreus. → Atreox
- Ill I am: HCE in bed
- Ilyam, Ilyum, Albion!
