Quotes About Ilium

She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.

War is men's business; and this war is the business of every man in Ilium, myself above all.

For nothing, as I now see it, equals the value of life - not the wealth they say prosperous Ilium possessed in earlier days, when there was peace, before the coming of the Greeks, nor all the treasure pilled up behind the stone threshold of Phoebus Apollo in rocky Delphi. Cattle and fat sheep can be lifted. Tripods and chestnut horses can be procured. But you cannot lift or procure a man's life, when once the breath has left his lips.

O fatherland, O Ilium home of the gods, O Troy walls famed in battle!