* His Ilium / Olympos cycle is inspired by Homer's works.

* The character of Ada and her home Ardis Hall in the Ilium cycle are inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor, which was Nabokov's foray into the science fiction genre and alternate history.

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

* Ilium / Olympus series ( 2003-) by Dan Simmons.

In addition, the Aeneid attempted to legitimize the rule of Julius Caesar ( and by extension, of his adopted son Augustus and his heirs ) by renaming Aeneas ' son, Ascanius ( called Ilus from Ilium, meaning Troy ), Iulus and offering him as an ancestor of the gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar, and many other great imperial descendants as part of the prophecy given to him in the Underworld.

1296 – 1272 ) makes a treaty with Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander ), king of Wilusa ( Ilium ); and another document has Wilusa swearing by Appaliuna ( Apollo ).

According to other accounts, he was slain by Hector or by Paris in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with Achilles His ashes, along with those of Achilles and Patroclus, were enshrined in a mound on the promontory of Sigeion, where the inhabitants of Ilium offered sacrifice to the dead heroes.

It was said by Cassius Dio that Nero, the emperor at the time, sang the " Sack of Ilium " in stage costume as the city burned.

Various mythological versions of the foundation of Brescia exist: one assigns it to Hercules while another attributes its foundation as Altilia (" the other Ilium ") by a fugitive from the siege of Troy.

The bifurcation of the population is represented by the division of Ilium into " The Homestead ", where everyone who is neither a manager or engineer lives, and the other side of the river, where all the engineers and managers lives.

Gilchrist and Walmsley both left Ilium at the end of 2003, Gilchrist recorded the demos for the songs but the bass on the album was played by Smith, with Walmsley completing the drum duties on the album before exiting the band.

During this album Tim's vocal style, which was more in tune with pivotal members Smith and Hodges ' vision for the band than his predecessor's, help Ilium garner considerable international praise, whilst the production duties were taken over largely by Smith and Hodges.

David Walmsley again left Ilium as Permian Dusk was being mastered and was replaced by Dungeon's Tim Yatras.

2012 a new song named Greenpeace Music Video dedicated to Greenpeace produced by FanVision & Vida Production in cooperation with Ilium band, and in acting, written and directed by Diego Vida and composed by Ilium band with Lyrics by Jason Hodges and music by Adam Smith and voice by Mike DiMeo will be available for free on the web for promoting the new Rainbow Warrior ship.

Dan Simmons ( born April 4, 1948 ) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium / Olympos cycle.

* Dan Simmons's Ilium / Olympos novels use the Noosphere as a way to explain the origins of powerful entities such as Ariel and Prospero, the former arising from a network of datalogging mote machines, and the latter of whom derives from a post-Internet logosphere.

* Dan Simmons, science-fiction author ( who dedicated his novel Ilium to the college )

* In the Dan Simmons Ilium and Olympos novels

Caliban is featured as an antagonist in Dan Simmons ' Ilium / Olympos duology.

* Also in Dan Simmons's Ilium and Olympos.

In Dan Simmons's Ilium novel, ' Eloi ' is a nickname for the lazy, uneducated, and uncultured descendants of the human race after the post-humans have left Earth.

* Setebos, a key character / bogeyman featured in Dan Simmons ' novels Ilium and Olympos

* In Dan Simmons's novels Ilium and Olympos, a major landmark is " Paris Crater ", the site where a man made micro black hole's containment field failed, and the black hole sank toward the centre of the earth before collapsing ( presumably in accordance with the Hawking radiation theory ), leaving a volcanic crater in its wake.

* Ilium ( novel ), a 2003 novel by Dan Simmons

The poem is referred to in Dan Simmons ' science fiction books Ilium and Olympos, in which Caliban and Setebos are villains.

* Rubicon virus, a plot element in Ilium / Olympos, a science fiction novel by Dan Simmons

Many science-fiction societies are postliterate, as in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Dan Simmons ' novel Ilium, and Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story.

# Ilium ( 2003 ) – Locus Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2004

* The Ilium / Olympos ( 2003 / 2005 ) cycle has elements of this genre through staging the Trojan war myth on a far-future terraformed planet Mars.

** Ilium: anterior inferior iliac spine ( AIIS ), anterior superior iliac spine ( ASIS ), posterior inferior iliac spine, and posterior superior iliac spine

The more prominent plot line follows the protagonist, Dr. Paul Proteus ( hither to referred to as Paul ), an intelligent, thirty-five-year-old factory manager of Ilium Works.

The name most likely refers to Troy, New York (" Ilium " was the name the Romans gave to ancient Troy ), although Troy is mentioned as a separate city in Player Piano.

* Ilium ( Epirus ), an ancient city in Epirus

* Ilium ( Kurt Vonnegut ), a fictional New York town in many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels

* Ilium ( band ), a melodic power metal band from Newcastle, Australia

Other works by Chandler were Inscriptiones Antiquae pleraeque nondum editae ( Oxford, 1774 ); Travels in Asia Minor ( 1775 ); Travels in Greece ( 1776 ); History of Ilium ( 1803 ), in which he asserted the accuracy of Homer's geography.

Nicolaus and Josephus mentions that during Julia's marriage to Agrippa, she was travelling to meet Agrippa where he was campaigning, was caught up in a flash flood in Ilium ( Troy ), and almost drowned.

The story of the Nostoi comes chronologically after that of the Iliou persis ( Sack of Ilium ), and is followed by that of the Odyssey.

Whether Elektra had come to Athena's shrine of the Palladium as a pregnant suppliant and a god cast it into the territory of Ilium, because it had been profaned by the hands of a woman who was not a virgin, or whether Elektra carried it herself or whether it was given directly to Dardanus vary in sources and scholia.

In Ilium John meets, among others, Dr. Asa Breed, who was the supervisor " on paper " of Felix Hoenikker.

* Mary Hepburn, an American widow who teaches at Ilium High School

Marianne Luban quotes Diodorus Siculus: " A man of obscure origin was chosen king, whom the Egyptians call ' Ketes ', but who among the Greeks is thought to be that Proteus who lived at the time of the war about Ilium.

Iris informs Menelaus, who returns to plan an expedition against Ilium with his brother Agamemnon.

I travelled by land for two days to that place which they say was Troy, but found no one who could give me any information concerning it, and we came to Ilium, as they call it.