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PRIAM, King of Troy. [CHART A1].

King of Troy during the ten years of the Trojan War. Also known as Podarces (Podarge).(S5).
Born in 1183BC (S9), son of LAOMEDON.

He married (1) Arisbe.

He married (2) Hecuba. His chief wife.

He married (3) ?. Another wife (4), Laothoe, was the mother of Lycaon.

He also fathered Cebriones with a slave (5).

He was the high King of Troy during the ten year battle with the Mycenean Greeks in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad. It should be noted that the city most think of as Troy was actually called Ilium or Illiona (also Ilius). Troy was the nation of which Illiona was the capital.

He ruled from 1233-1181. (S6).

He lived to see the downfall of his kingdom and was slain on the night the Greeks took the city, in 1183 B.C.(1181-S6). He had armed himself and was about to mingle with the combatants when Hecuba prevailed upon him to take refuge with her and their daughters at the altar of Jupitar. While there, his youngest son Polites, pursued by Pyrrhus the son of Achilles, rushed in wounded and expired at the feet of his father; whereupon Priam, overcome with indignation, hurled his spear with feeble hand against Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus, but was slain by him.

All his brothers were killed by Heracles in the sack of Troy.

In Greek mythology, Priam (Greek Priamos) was king of Troy during the Trojan War and son of Laomedon. Priam had a number of wives (his first was Arisbe); his chief wife, Hecuba, bore him twenty children, including Creusa, Ilione, Deiphobus, Hector, Helenus, Antiphus, Polites, Laodice, Polydorus, Paris and Cassandra. Another wife, Laothoe, was the mother of Lycaon. He also fathered Cebriones with a slave. Priam was originally called Podarge (or Podarces) and he kept himself from being killed by Heracles by giving him a golden veil embroidered by his sister, Hesione. After this, Podarge changed his name to Priam, meaning "ransomed".

Polydorus, Priam's youngest son, was sent with gifts of jewelry and gold to the court of King Polymestor to keep him safe during the Trojan War. The fighting was getting vicious and Priam was frightened for the child's safety. After Troy fell, Polymestor threw Polydorus to his death to take the treasure for himself. Hecuba eventually avenged her son.

When Hector was killed by Achilles, Priam walked into the Greek encampment and begged for Hector's body so he could be buried. Achilles agreed, though he had already dragged the body around Troy three times, and Priam was eventually sacrificed to Zeus by Neoptolemus, Achilles' son.

WIFE (1):
ARISBE. (S5).
Daughter of Merops the Seer

CHILDREN of PRIAM and Arisbe:
  1. Aesacus. (S5).
  2. Cassandra (S8).
  3. Creusa (S8).


WIFE (2):
HECUBA. Queen of Troy.
Of Phrygia.

CHILDREN of PRIAM and Hecuba:
  1. Sobil.
  2. Alexander (Paris). (S8). Of the Iliad of Greek mythology. He fell in love with Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, and took her to Troy. He was killed in the Trojan War. [(S5), Bulfinch, 1968].
  3. Helenus. (S5, S8).
  4. CRUESA. (S5,S8)(Cassandra-S9). She married Aeneas, King of Latium.
  5. Laodice. (S5).
  6. Polyxena. She was sacrificed upon the tomb of Achilles by the Greeks after her father’s death. (S5).
  7. Hector. (Hektor, Heccar). (S8). Of the Iliad of Greek mythology. He married Andromache and was killed by Achilles. [(S5), Bulfinch, 1968].
  8. Cassandra. She was made a captive of the Greeks after her father’s death. She had been given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, but after she offended him, he charged that no one would believe her predictions [(S5), Bulfinch, 1968].
  9. Deiphobus. (S5).
  10. Pammon.(S5).
  11. Polites. Killed by Pyrrhus. [(S5), Bulfinch, 1968].
  12. Antiphus. (S5).
  13. Hipponous. (S5).
  14. Polydorus. (S5, S8).
  15. Troilus.(S5).
  16. TROANA. (Troan). She married MUNION (Mimnon, Memnon, Hamman), who became the King of Troy. (S5, Tompsett, 2003).
  17. Ilione.


WIFE:
?


CHILDREN of PRIAM:
  1. Helen
  2. Troana, m. Memnon. (Note: S5 says Toana is a daughter of Hecuba. [see above]


WIFE (4):
Laothoe


CHILDREN of PRIAM and Laothoe:
  1. Lycaon. (S5?). S8 says Lycaon is a child of Priam and Hecuba.


SPOUSE (5):
?
A slave.

CHILDREN of PRIAM and a slave:
  1. He also fathered Cebriones with a slave.


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