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Ilium is a fictional town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels and stories, including Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and the stories "Deer in the Works", "Poor Little Rich Town", and "Ed Luby's Key Club". [1]
Ilium or Ilion (Ancient Greek: Ἴλιον), also known as Troja (Τροΐα), [1] was a city of ancient Epirus. [2] It is mentioned in the Aeneid of Virgil as a foundation of Helenus after the Trojan War in the land of the Chaonia. [3] Its site is located near the modern village of Despotiko in Greece. [4] [5] The village was formerly known as ...
Cestria or Kestria (Ancient Greek: Κεστρία), [1] also known as Ilium or Ilion (Ἴλιον), or Troja (Τροΐα), [2] was a town in ancient Epirus. [3] Its district was called Cestrine or Kestrine (Κεστρίνη) and Kestrinia (Κεστρινία), [4] and was located in Chaonia, separated from Thesprotia by the river Thyamis. [5]
Ilium (band), a metal band from Australia; Ilium, a 2003 novel by Dan Simmons; Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut), a fictional New York town in many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels; Illium, a fictional location in the video game Mass Effect 2
A new city called Ilium (from Greek Ilion) was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople , which became a bishopric in the Roman province Hellespontus (civil Diocese of Asia ), but declined gradually in the Byzantine era .
Ilion (Ἴλιον) or (Latinized) Ilium, an Archaic name for the pre-classical city of Troy, hence the title of Homer's Iliad, also a Byzantine city and bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see as Ilium; Ilion, Greece, a suburb of Athens, Greece, also known as Nea Liosia; Ilium (Epirus), ancient city of Epirus, Greece
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Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut.It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years.