Priam in a sentence

Priam's Treasure Sophia Schliemann (née Engastromenos) wearing treasures recovered at Hisarlik A cache of gold and other objects appeared on or around May 27, 1873; Schliemann named it " Priam's Treasure ".

Achilles asks Priam for Polyxena's hand in marriage.

But the figures are more violent in action, the central space taken up, not with a commanding God, but with the dynamic figure of Neoptolemos as he seizes the aged king Priam and stabs him.

But while Priam is overseeing the private marriage of Polyxena and Achilles, Paris, who would have to give up Helen if Achilles married his sister, hides in the bushes and shoots Achilles with a divine arrow, killing him.

By his various wives and concubines Priam was the father of fifty sons and many daughters.

Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam (Priamos) and Queen Hecuba (Hekabe) and the fraternal twin sister of Helenus and a princess of Troy.

However, he did protect Priam when he went to the Greek camp to retrieve the body of his son Hector and accompanied them back to Troy.

Neoptolemus killed Priam, who had taken refuge at the altar of Zeus of the Courtyard.

Neoptolemus then drags Priam to the altar and there kills him too.

Once King Priam has been notified that Achilles will allow him to claim the body, he goes to his strongroom to withdraw the ransom.

Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the royal line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Roman culture.

Priam decided to betroth Cassandra to Telephus’s son Eurypyplus after Telephus had reinforced the Trojans by sending them an army of Mysians to come to defend Troy for them.

Priam is willing because it would mean the end of the war and an alliance with the world's greatest warrior.

Priam tearfully pleads with Achilles to take pity on a father bereft of his son and return Hector’s body.

She was purified from this action by Priam, Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica i.18 ff.

The bottom of the vase was a cameo glass disc, also in blue and white, showing a head, presumed to be of Paris or Priam on the basis of the Phrygian cap it wears.

There, too, Aeneas sees and meets Helenus, one of Priam 's sons, who has the gift of prophecy.

Thetis has told Achilles to allow King Priam to come and take the body for ransom.