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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 ...
Ilium, ancient name of Cestria (Epirus), an ancient city in Epirus, Greece; Ilium Building, a building in Troy, New York, United States; Anatomy.
In Greek mythology, Ilus (/ ˈ iː l oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἶλος Ilos) was the founder of the city called Ilios or Ilion (Latinized as Ilium) to which he gave his name. [1] When the latter became the chief city of the Trojan people it was also often called Troy, the name by which it is best known today. In some accounts, Ilus was ...
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
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 ]
Epirus in antiquity. This is a list of cities in ancient Epirus.These were Greek poleis, komes or fortresses except for Nicopolis, which was founded by Octavian.Classical Epirus was divided into three regions: Chaonia, Molossia, Thesprotia, each named after the dominant tribe that lived there.
' Sack of Ilium '), also known as The Sack of Troy, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the Iliou persis comes chronologically after that of the Little Iliad, and is followed by the Nostoi ("Returns").