Priam
Greek · scion · trojan war · scion
Scion (far down the Dardanid line, his divine blood much diluted) — the aged king of Troy through the Trojan War, son of Laomedon, born Podarces and ransomed/renamed by his sister Hesione. Father by Hecuba and other wives of fifty sons and many daughters, among them Hector, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, Cassandra, Creusa, Polyxena, and Troilus. His night journey to ransom Hector's body from Achilles is the climax of the Iliad; he was slain at the altar of Zeus Herkeios by Neoptolemus when Troy fell.
Parentage
Children
Domains
- kingship
- supplication
- fatherhood and lineage
- old age and grief
Powers
- begets fifty sons and many daughters as the patriarch of the Dardanid house
- ransoms the body of Hector by supplicating Achilles in his own tent
Epithets
- Πρίαμος
- δῖος
Relations
- spouse: Hecuba
- father of: Hector
- father of: Paris
- father of: Cassandra
- father of: Helenus
- father of: Deiphobus
- father of: Creusa
- father of: Polyxena
- father of: Troilus
- sibling: Hesione
- sibling: Hicetaon