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noun - a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones
noun - an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War
Also Ilion (VlùK-Nn, -mn) or Ilium (-K-Nm).
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| This ancient city was also known as Ilium |
| Visit here & enjoy Mediterranean cuisine, beautiful women & a huge wooden horse donated by the Greeks |
| In Barry Unsworth's "The Songs of the Kings", the Greek fleet bound for here is trapped by unfavorable winds |
| The weight system used for gems & precious metals; 1.215 of its pounds equals one avoirdupois pound |
| Virgil's "Aeneid" begins after Aeneas & his family escape this war-torn city |
| Hector's home in mythology |
| Schliemann felt this city's 2nd settlement was the one of Homer's epics; now it seems to be the 7th |
| Both Laocoon & Cassandra warned this city to refuse the big gift from the Greeks, but did they listen? |
| "Now there are cornfields where" this ancient city, temporary home to Helen, "once was" |
| Agamemnon goes on a hilarious bender after sacrificing his daughter to gain a fair wind to this city |
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Troy (Ancient Greek: , Troia or , Troias and , Ilion or , Ilios; Latin: Troia and Ilium; Hittite: Wilusha or Truwisha; Turkish: Truva or Troya) was a city in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, near (just south of) the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the Iliad and the Odyssey suggests that the name (Ilion) formerly began with a digamma: (Wilion); this is also supported by the Hittite name for what is thought to be the same city, Wilusa. * A new capital 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, became a bishopric and declined gradually i |