Priam
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Priam (Priamos or (Latin) Priamus) is a person in Greek mythology. He was the King of Troy during the Trojan War.
Priam had several wives, but his principal wife was Hecuba. With her he had his favourite son Hector; and Paris the cause of the war.
In Book II of Virgil's Aeneid, he was killed during the destruction of Troy by Achilles' son Neoptolemus.
Priam Media
Priam killed by Neoptolemus, detail of an Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 520–510 BC
Priam asks Achilles to return Hector's body by Alexander Ivanov
The Death of Priam by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
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Media related to Priam at Wikimedia Commons