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wall of Ilius

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Canonical name: wall of Ilius
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Location
Scope: Individual
Parent location: None
Editorial note: The high city wall where Andromache waits and asks Hector to remain.

Aliases

Trojan wall

Descriptive reference · Direct

Present entities

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

AndromacheCharacter3 observations

·Direct

Andromache is on the wall of Ilius.

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“for she was on the wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly”

·Reported

The housekeeper reports that Andromache is on the high wall of Ilius.

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“she is on the high wall of Ilius, for she had heard the Trojans were being hard pressed, and that the Achaeans were in great force: she went to the wall in frenzied haste”

·Direct

Andromache reached the battlements and stood looking out from the wall of Ilius.

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“When she reached the battlements and the crowd of people, she stood looking out upon the wall”

nurse of Hector’s sonCharacter2 observations

·Direct

The maid later identified as the child’s nurse is with Andromache on the wall.

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“for she was on the wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly”

·Reported

The housekeeper reports that the nurse went with Andromache to the wall.

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“she went to the wall in frenzied haste, and the nurse went with her carrying the child”

ScamandriusCharacter2 observations

·Direct

Andromache’s child is with her on the wall of Ilius.

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“for she was on the wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly”

·Reported

The housekeeper reports that the child was carried by the nurse to the wall.

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“she went to the wall in frenzied haste, and the nurse went with her carrying the child”

ApolloDeity1 observation

·Direct

Apollo takes his stand upon the high wall of Ilius.

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“Phoebus Apollo taken his stand upon the wall to defeat his purpose and to aid the Trojans”

PatroclusCharacter3 observations

·Direct

Patroclus charges at an angle of the high wall of Ilius.

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“Thrice did Patroclus charge at an angle of the high wall, and thrice did Apollo beat him back, striking his shield with his own immortal hands”

·Direct

Patroclus’ body lay at the centre of the fight under the wall of Troy.

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“Such fearful turmoil of men and horses did Jove on that day ordain round the body of Patroclus. Meanwhile Achilles did not know that he had fallen, for the fight was under the wall of Troy a long way off the ships.”

·Hypothetical

Minerva warns hypothetically of Patroclus’ body being torn by dogs under the walls of Troy.

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“if dogs tear the noble comrade of Achilles under the walls of Troy”

AchillesCharacter6 observations

·Hypothetical

Achilles reports a prophecy placing his future death under the wall of Ilius.

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“She told me I was to fall under the walls of Troy by the flying arrows of Apollo”

·Direct

Achilles is outside and below the wall of Ilius as Priam watches him from its tower.

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“Old King Priam stood on a high tower of the wall looking down on huge Achilles as the Trojans fled panic-stricken before him”

·Direct

Achilles pursued Hector beneath the Trojan wall.

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“Fear fell upon Hector as he beheld him, and he dared not stay longer where he was but fled in dismay from before the gates, while Achilles darted after him at his utmost speed. As a mountain falcon, swiftest of all birds, swoops down upon some cowering dove—the dove flies before him but the falcon with a shrill scream follows close after, resolved to have her—even so did Achilles make straight for Hector with all his might, while Hector fled under the Trojan wall as fast as his limbs could take him”

·Direct

Achilles was one of the two men running hard by under the wall of Ilius.

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“On they flew along the waggon-road that ran hard by under the wall”

·Reported

Jove reports seeing Achilles pursuing Hector around the walls of Troy.

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“my eyes behold a man who is dear to me being pursued round the walls of Troy; my heart is full of pity for Hector, who has burned the thigh-bones of many a heifer in my honour, one while on the crests of manyvalleyed Ida, and again on the citadel of Troy; and now I see noble Achilles in full pursuit of him round the city of Priam”

·Hypothetical

Patroclus foretells Achilles dying beneath the Trojan wall.

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“you too Achilles, peer of gods, are doomed to die beneath the wall of the noble Trojans.”

HectorCharacter5 observations

·Hypothetical

Achilles imagines Hector being under the wall of Ilius to slay him there.

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“She told me I was to fall under the walls of Troy by the flying arrows of Apollo; would that Hector, the best man among the Trojans, might there slay me”

·Direct

Hector stood beside a tower jutting from the wall of Ilius.

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“even so Hector leaned his shield against a tower that jutted out from the wall and stood where he was, undaunted”

·Direct

Hector fled beneath the Trojan wall.

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“Fear fell upon Hector as he beheld him, and he dared not stay longer where he was but fled in dismay from before the gates, while Achilles darted after him at his utmost speed. As a mountain falcon, swiftest of all birds, swoops down upon some cowering dove—the dove flies before him but the falcon with a shrill scream follows close after, resolved to have her—even so did Achilles make straight for Hector with all his might, while Hector fled under the Trojan wall as fast as his limbs could take him”

·Direct

Hector was one of the two men running hard by under the wall of Ilius.

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“On they flew along the waggon-road that ran hard by under the wall”

·Reported

Jove reports seeing Hector pursued around the walls of Troy.

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“my eyes behold a man who is dear to me being pursued round the walls of Troy; my heart is full of pity for Hector, who has burned the thigh-bones of many a heifer in my honour, one while on the crests of manyvalleyed Ida, and again on the citadel of Troy; and now I see noble Achilles in full pursuit of him round the city of Priam”

NeptuneDeity1 observation

·Remembered

Neptune recalls building the wall of Ilius.

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“I built the Trojans the wall about their city, so wide and fair that it might be impregnable”

PriamCharacter1 observation

·Direct

Priam stands on a high tower of the wall of Ilius.

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“Old King Priam stood on a high tower of the wall looking down on huge Achilles”

TrojansCharacter2 observations

·Direct

The routed Trojans flee immediately below the wall of Ilius.

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“Old King Priam stood on a high tower of the wall looking down on huge Achilles as the Trojans fled panic-stricken before him”

·Direct

The Trojans rested against the battlements of the wall of Ilius.

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“THUS the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements”

AchaeansCharacter1 observation

·Direct

The Achaeans drew close up to the wall of Ilius.

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“while the Achaeans with their shields laid upon their shoulders drew close up to the walls”

Hector’s plumed helmetItem1 observation

·Hypothetical

Hector considers hypothetically laying his plumed helmet down at the wall of Ilius.

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“What, again, if I were to lay down my shield and helmet, lean my spear against the wall and go straight up to noble Achilles?”

spear of noble AchillesItem1 observation

·Direct

Achilles carried and brandished his Pelian-ash spear as he pursued Hector under the Trojan wall.

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“From his right shoulder he brandished his terrible spear of Pelian ash, and the bronze gleamed around him like flashing fire or the rays of the rising sun. Fear fell upon Hector as he beheld him, and he dared not stay longer where he was but fled in dismay from before the gates, while Achilles darted after him at his utmost speed. As a mountain falcon, swiftest of all birds, swoops down upon some cowering dove—the dove flies before him but the falcon with a shrill scream follows close after, resolved to have her—even so did Achilles make straight for Hector with all his might, while Hector fled under the Trojan wall as fast as his limbs could take him”

MinervaDeity1 observation

·Disguised

Minerva, in Deiphobus’s form, was physically present outside the wall of Ilius.

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“Deiphobus, you have always been dearest to me of all my brothers, children of Hecuba and Priam, but henceforth I shall rate you yet more highly, inasmuch as you have ventured outside the wall”

Trojan womenCharacter1 observation

·Direct

The Trojan women joined Andromache’s lament at the wall.

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“In such wise did she cry aloud amid her tears, and the women joined in her lament.”

Claims

·Reported

Andromache describes the wall by the fig-tree as Ilius’s weakest and most scalable point and urges Hector to hold it.

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“stay here upon this wall; make not your child fatherless, and your wife a widow; as for the host, place them near the fig-tree, where the city can be best scaled, and the wall is weakest”

·Reported

Neptune describes Troy’s wall as his own construction, wide and fair and intended to be impregnable.

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“I built the Trojans the wall about their city, so wide and fair that it might be impregnable”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Direct

“the high wall of Ilius”

·Reported

“the growing youths and grey-bearded men are to camp upon its heaven-built walls”

·Direct

“reach the high wall and the city”

·Direct

“the high wall of Ilius”

·Direct

“Hector fled under the Trojan wall as fast as his limbs could take him”