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Meaning & History
Derived from the Greek place name Ἴλιον (Ilion), an alternative name of Troy, the ancient city that was besieged by the Greeks in Homer's Iliad. In Greek mythology Ilione or Iliona is a Trojan princess, the eldest daughter of Priam, who later becomes a queen of the Thracian Chersonese as the wife of Polymnestor or Polymestor. She is briefly mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid: Aeneas gives her scepter to Dido.