Welcome to Ilium/Olympos Notes
This wiki holds my notes on Dan Simmon's Ilium. If you've accidentally stumbled onto this page, be aware that every link contains spoilers for both Ilium and Olympos.
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Ilium Major Story Lines
There are three distinct storylines in Ilium: the Harman storyline, which follows the story of humans on Earth, told in 3rd person past tense; the Hockenberry storyline, which follows the events taking place at Ilium, told in 1st person present tense; and the Mahnmut storyline, while follows the story of the moravecs travelling to Mars, told in 3rd person past tense. Events in the Hockenberry and Mahnmut storylines eventually converge, but the storylines remain distinct due to the 1st-person-present-tense versus 3rd-person-past-tense differences in the narrative.
Olympos Major Story Lines
Characters
Humans
The Tempest
Trojans
Major Locations
Creatures (Mythical and Otherwise)
Technology
Literary Works Referenced in Ilium and Olympos
- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Ada: or Ardor, Vladimar Nabokov
- Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
- Caliban Upon Setebos; or Natural Theology in the Island, Robert Browning (1864)
- Henry IV, William Shakespeare
- The Iliad, Homer
- In Search of Lost Time, Proust
- Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi (1880)
- Queen Mab, Percy Bysshe Shelly.
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
- The Tempest, William Shakespeare
- The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
- Ulysses James Joyce
- Ulysses Alfred Tennyson
- Works and Days, Hesiod. See also the Wikipedia entry.
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