title: &lt;i&gt;Iliad&lt;/i&gt; 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary (Hellenic Studies Series)
author:  Casey Du 
description: Casey Du is Associate Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of Houston.
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  ## Ilium
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Troy - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Dan Simmons
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping off point Dan
  Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from
  40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history
  forever, their technology impacting on the population in agodlike fashion.
  This is broad scope space opera rich in classical and literary allusion from
  one of the key figures in 1990s world SF and marks a return to the genre for
  one of its greats.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## ILIUM
  
  
  ## DAN SIMMONS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _This novel is dedicated to Wabash College—its men, its faculty, and its
  legacy_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Mean while the Mind, from pleasure less,_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Withdraws into its happiness:_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Mind, that Ocean where each kind_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Does straight its resemblance find;_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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