Priam

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

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  Priam killed by Neoptolemus, detail of an Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 520–510 BC

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  The Death of Priam by Johann Andreas Herrlein

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  Priam asks Achilles to return Hector's body by Alexander Ivanov

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  The Death of Priam by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

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