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PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 313 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos) , in
Greek
 
legend
 , the last
king
  of
Troy
 , son of Laomedon and brother of
Tithonus
 . Little is known of him before the Trojan War, which broke out when he was advanced in years. According to Monier (Iliad, iii. 184) in his
youth he fought on the side of the Phrygians against the
Amazons
 . He had fifty sons and fifty daughters, and possessed immense wealth. He appears only twice on the
scene
  of action during the warto make arrangements for the
duel
  between Paris and Menelaus, and to beg the
body
  of Hector for burial from Achilles, whom he visits in his tent by night. He was said to have been slain by
Neoptolemus
 , son of Achilles, during the sack of
Troy
  (Virgil, Aencid, ii. 512). See under TROY, on the legends.


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