The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Troy
Also known as Ilion, Ilium
- city
- ancient Greek/Roman
The legendary city of Ilion on the Troad, near the Hellespont. Gibbon invokes it as the Homeric ancestor-site claimed by Roman and Byzantine tradition, not as a living capital.
- Type
- city
- Style
- ancient Greek/Roman
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 174
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The legendary city of Ilion on the Troad, near the Hellespont. Gibbon invokes it as the Homeric ancestor-site claimed by Roman and Byzantine tradition, not as a living capital.
Appearances
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