Priam

"Sons of Atreus," he cried, "and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety;

Surely Priam with his sons would rejoice, and the Trojans be glad at heart if they could hear this quarrel between you two, who are so excellent in fight and counsel.

There are many allies dispersed about the city of Priam from distant places and speaking divers tongues.

and he said that if men were so disposed, Troy would never have been taken, nor would Priam, the king of the Phrygians, descended from Zeus, have been slaughtered at the altar of Zeus.

for his own cousin Memnon was king of the Ethiopians, being son of Tithonus the brother of Priam.

and Priam and Hector and all the rest rejoiced at the marriage, and received Helen with sacrifices and prayers.

"My friend," answered Nestor, "you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under Achilles, and in that district [ dêmos] when fighting before the great city of king Priam.

He says that you have here the most ill-starred of all those who fought nine years before the city of King Priam and sailed home in the tenth year after having sacked it.

I heard Priam's daughter Cassandra scream as Clytemnestra killed her close beside me.

For many reverses and vicissitudes of all sorts occur in the course of life, and it is possible that the most prosperous man may encounter great disasters in his declining years, as the story is told of Priam in the epics;

though it is true he will not be supremely blessed if he encounters the misfortunes of a Priam.

just as Homer has represented Priam as saying of Hector, on account of his surpassing valor— nor seemed to be The son of mortal man, but of a god.

(Although Callimachus says, not amiss, that Priam wept far oftener than Troilus.

Priam, bereft of so great an offspring, when he had fled to the altar, an enemy's hand slew.

"Nay, in very truth I gave back the body to Priam;

Hecuba:

Agamemnon:

Aged Priam is no more;

she gave to the son of king Priam not me, but an image, alive and breathing, that she fashioned out of the sky and made to look like me;

—I will stretch a deadly noose about my neck, or drive inward a murderous thrust of slaughter that gushes from the throat, a contest of the blade through my flesh, as a sacrifice to the three goddesses and to the son of Priam, who once sat on the hollows of Ida, near the ox-stalls.

I too have shared misfortunes with Priam’s race.

Priam’s wife.

In a land where I wish Paris, the son of Priam, never had dwelt.

to what utter ruin Paris, the son of Priam, the cause of these troubles, has brought me by his union with Helen!

Priam, the father of fifty children;

with these my eyes I saw their father, Priam, butchered on his own hearth, and my city captured, nor did others bring this bitter news to me.

Groves stand forsaken and temples of the gods run down with blood, and at the altar’s very base, before the god who watched his home, Priam lies dead.

but the Greeks, for the sake of a Lacedaemonian woman, recruited a great armada, came to Asia, and destroyed the power of Priam.

For surely Priam was not so mad, or those nearest to him, as to consent to risk their own persons and their children and their city so that Alexandrus might cohabit with Helen.

Alexandrus was not even heir to the throne, in which case matters might have been in his hands since Priam was old, but Hector, who was an older and a better man than Alexandrus, was going to receive the royal power at Priam 's death, and ought not have acquiesced in his brother's wrongdoing, especially when that brother was the cause of great calamity to Hector himself and all the rest of the Trojans.

That I didn't know and was much astonished when I saw Priam come upon the stage in the tragedies with a bird, which kept watching Lysicrates to see if he got any present.

Here is no Hector, no Priam with his gold, but a city of Hellas.

O city of Thebes, glory of Asia, whence on a day I came to Priam’s princely home with many a rich and costly thing in my dower, affianced unto Hector to be the mother of his children,

Would God his mother had smitten him a cruel death-blow on the head before he made his home on Ida’s slopes, in the hour Cassandra, standing by the holy bay-tree, cried out, Slay him, for he will bring most grievous bane on Priam’s town.

Aye, and we destroyed the whole family of Priam.

After he had slain Priam, the ruler of Ilium, and captured the famous city of Dardanus, he came here to Argos and set up on the high temples many spoils of the barbarians.

To Priam and the Elders of the Wall

So that the massacre of the aged, like that of Priam by Pyrrhus, is no way surprising.

For not much later when strife arose among the goddesses for the prize of beauty, and Alexander, son of Priam, was appointed judge and when Hera offered him sovereignty over all Asia, Athena victory in war, and Aphrodite Helen as his wife, finding himself unable to make a distinction regarding the charms of their persons, but overwhelmed by the sight of the goddesses, Alexander, compelled to make …

And he lies beneath the Pythian soil, after he sacked the city of Priam, where even the Danaans toiled.

They say that the god-like heroes went to bring from Lemnos that man afflicted with a wound, the archer son of Poeas, who sacked the city of Priam and brought an end to the toils of the Danaans;

But the blessed gods partook not of it, nor would have it, For deep was their hate against holy Ilium, And Priam, and the folk of Priam of the good ashen spear.

nor yet Priam, near kinsman of the gods, making supplication and rolling in the dung, Calling aloud unto each, by name to each man appealing.

His memory was so bad that now the name of Ulysses would slip from him, now that of Achilles, now of Priam, men whom we know as well as our own tutors.

Did he not dissemble his anger and embrace the king's knees, and carry to his lips the murderous hand drenched with his son's blood, and dine?