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Ilium: Book 1

Ilium (2003) (edit title/settings)

by Dan Simmons (Author) (edit contributors)

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The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band... read more

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  • “"Time is separate from memory, but is memory ever separate from time?"”
    Mahnmut
  • “"No making merry with the serious business of the gods' sport. The wages of irony is death."”
    Hockenberry
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  • Because Proust knew—and his characters discover—that neither love nor its more noble cousin, friendship, ever survive the entropy blades of jealousy, boredom, familiarity, and egotism,
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  • “Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things,” said Odysseus. “Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one’s life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life.”
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  • “The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth,” recited Orphu, “would be found not in traveling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person, of a hundred others, and seeing the hundred universes each of them sees, which each of them is.”
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  • I don’t believe in God with a capital G and, despite their obvious solidity, I don’t believe in the gods with their small g’s. Not as real forces in the universe. But I believe in the bitch-goddess Irony. She crosses all time. She rules men and gods and God alike.
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  • . . .well, Falstaff was no one’s Fool . . . but he became a fool for the love of Prince Hal and died of a broken heart when the young prince abandoned him.
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  • “These deus ex machinas have a way of sneaking up on us literary types.”
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  • “Yes,” said Odysseus, “but you insult all those actions in which you do not honor arete. Eating? Eat as if it were your last meal. Prepare the food as if there were no more food! Sacrifices to the gods? You must make each sacrifice as if the lives of your family depended upon your energy and devotion and focus. Loving? Yes, love as if it were the most important thing in the world, but make it just one star in the constellation of excellence that is arete.”
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  • Tempus edax rerum.” I’ve been thinking in ancient Greek for so long that it takes me a second to translate the Latin. Time is a devourer.
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  • “Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,” said Shakespeare, his voice a monotone. “Which you by lacking have supposed dead, and there reigns love, and all love’s loving parts, and all the friends which you thought buried.”
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  • the Greek concept of aristeia—warrior-to-warrior or small-group combat in which an individual can show his valor—and how important it was to these ancients and how the larger battle would often pause so that the soldiers on each side could witness such examples of aristeia.
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First Sentence edit see section history

Rage. Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, of Peleus' son, murderous, mankiller, fated to die, sing of the rage that cost the Achaeans so many good men and sent so many vital, hearty souls down to the dreary House of Death.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 2 in Ilium. (standard series)

Followed by Olympos.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Dan Simmons (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 1931081883
Page Count: 680

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