Priam

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.14 Priam

  Last king of Troy, whose power Achilles broke; the point of the Thetis example against abortion.

• The Art of Love §1.13 Priam

  Aged king of Troy, to whom Achilles, moved by prayer, returned Hector's body: proof that pleading prevails.

• The Heroides §1 Priam

  Aged king of Troy through the war; here a synecdoche for the whole city and its ruin.

• The Heroides §5 Priam

  King of Troy, Paris's father; Oenone insists he would not scorn a nymph for daughter-in-law.

• The Heroides §16 Priam

  King of Troy and Paris's father, to whom the dream of the fatal torch was told.

• The Heroides §17 Priam

  King of Troy, Paris's father; Helen weighs his line against her own.

• The Festivals §6.proem son of Priam

  Paris, who judged the beauty-contest of Juno, Minerva, and Venus in the valleys of Ida.

• Ibis §8 Hercean Jove

  Priam, king of Troy, cut down at the altar of Jupiter Herceus ('of the courtyard') as the city fell.

• Metamorphoses §11.349 and Priam

  The last king of Troy, who 'drew the final days of Troy by lot'; father of Hector and (by Alexirhoe) of Aesacus.

• Metamorphoses §12.351 Priam the father

  Last king of Troy, father of Hector and Paris; here mourning his lost son Aesacus.

• Metamorphoses §13.393 move Priam

  King of Troy, father of Hector, Paris, and many others.

• Metamorphoses §15.494 Priam

  Last king of Troy, father of Helenus.