Priam

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

• paternal: Laomedon

Children

• Cassandra
• Creusa of Troy
• Deiphobus
• Hector
• Helenus
• Polydorus
• Polyxena
• Troilus

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 Ancient Greek · Priamos · namePriam (born Podarces, 'swift-foot', renamed when ransomed by Hesione)Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.6.4 (primary)
• δῖος Ancient Greek · dîos · epithetgodlike / illustrious (recurrent Homeric epithet of Priam)Homer, Iliad 24 (e.g. 24.483) (primary)

Relations

• spouse: HecubaHom. Il. 22.79-89; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
• father of: HectorHom. Il. 6.242-250, 22.405-428; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
• father of: ParisWires to the existing figure greek_paris — parentage/reciprocal update needed.Hom. Il. 3.146-160, 24.248-251; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
• father of: CassandraHom. Il. 24.699-700; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
• father of: HelenusHom. Il. 6.76, 24.249; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
• father of: DeiphobusHom. Il. 22.227-247, 24.251; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
• father of: Creusa of TroyApollod. 3.12.5; Verg. Aen. 2.562, 2.738-794 (primary)
• father of: PolyxenaApollod. Epit. 5.23; Eur. Hec. 40-44, 521-582 (primary)
• father of: TroilusHom. Il. 24.257; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
• sibling: Hesione
• sibling: Hicetaon

Sources

• existence: Hom. Il. 2-24 (passim, esp. 3, 22, 24); Apollod. 3.12.5, Epit. 5.21; Eur. Tro., Hec.; Verg. Aen. 2.506-558; Hyg. Fab. 90 (primary)
• parentage: Hom. Il. 20.237; Apollod. 2.6.4, 3.12.3 (primary)