person
Priam
The aged king of Troy who, in the Iliad, supplicated Achilles and kissed the hand that had killed his son Hector to ransom the body.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §158 son-in-law of Priam
Priam, the aged king of Troy slain at his own altar; Agamemnon becomes his 'son-in-law' by taking Cassandra.
- On Anger §2.33 Priam
King of Troy who, in the Iliad, kissed Achilles' blood-stained hand to ransom his son Hector's body — devotion mastering anger.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §3.27.5 Priam
The aged king of Troy in the Iliad; with Ulysses and Achilles, one of the best-known names in all of Greek poetry.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.31 Priam
The aged king of Troy.
- Octavia §829 Priam
The last king of Troy, whose kingdom Love (through Helen and Paris) brought down.
- The Trojan Women §28 ruler of the Phrygians
Priam, king of Troy, husband of Hecuba, killed at the altar in the sack; already dead as the play opens.