Priam and Hecuba, king and queen of Troy, bore Hector, Paris, Cassandra, Deiphobus, and Helenus. Hecuba dreamed Paris would destroy Troy, but Priam welcomed him back.
Laomedon, king of Troy, fathered both Tithonus and Priam. Tithonus was carried off by Eos before the fall of the first Troy, while Priam survived Heracles' sack of the city and rebuilt the kingdom.
In the Iliad, Priam recalls fighting alongside the Phrygians against the Amazons in his youth. Despite that earlier conflict, the Amazons later came to Troy's aid under Penthesilea after Hector's death.
In the Iliad, Hermes guided the aged Priam safely through the Greek camp at night to ransom the body of his son Hector from Achilles.
Memnon came to Troy as an ally of King Priam, bringing his Ethiopian army to aid the besieged city after Hector's death. As Tithonus's son, Memnon was Priam's nephew.
Penthesilea came to Troy as an ally of King Priam after Hector's death. Priam purified her of blood-guilt for Hippolyta's death, and she fought for Troy until Achilles slew her.
Neoptolemus killed the aged King Priam at the household altar of Zeus Herkeios during the sack of Troy. The sacrilegious killing of a suppliant at a sacred altar became one of the most condemned acts of the war.
In the Iliad's final book, the aged Priam came alone to Achilles's tent to ransom Hector's body. Their shared grief — Priam for his son, Achilles for Patroclus and his own father — broke Achilles's wrath.
Aeneas belonged to a junior branch of Troy's royal house through the line of Dardanus. He served under Priam during the Trojan War as leader of the Dardanian contingent.
Priam was Andromache's father-in-law as king of Troy and father of Hector. In the Iliad, Andromache's bond with the royal house of Troy defined her status and deepened her losses at the city's fall.
Priam was Astyanax's grandfather. The infant represented the future of Troy's royal line, and his death ensured that Priam's dynasty would end with the city's fall.
In Iliad Book 24, Hermes carried the Caduceus when Zeus sent him to guide the aged King Priam safely through the Greek camp to ransom the body of Hector from Achilles.
Priam, Cassandra's father, dismissed her prophecies throughout the war. When she warned him not to welcome Paris and Helen, not to trust the Trojan Horse, he ignored her each time — fulfilling Apollo's curse.
Dardanus founded the dynasty from which Priam descended. Through Erichthonius, Tros, and Ilus, the Trojan royal line traced its ancestry back to Dardanus and ultimately to Zeus.
Priam, guided by Hermes, crossed the Greek lines alone to kneel before Achilles and beg for Hector's body. The aged king kissed the hands that had slain his greatest son.
Priam, king of Troy, treated Helen with kindness throughout the war. At the walls, he told her the gods were to blame for the conflict, not her, and asked her to name the Greek champions.
Nestor and the Greek commanders besieged Priam's Troy for ten years. Nestor's counsel shaped Greek strategy against the Trojans throughout the war described in the Iliad.
Panthous served as one of the elders on King Priam's council in Troy, advising the king during the Trojan War. Homer names him among the respected old men who sat at the Scaean Gates.
Priam exposed his infant son Paris on Mount Ida after Hecuba's dream foretold he would destroy Troy. Years later, Priam welcomed the grown Paris back to court, sealing Troy's fate.
Polydamas serves as a counselor in King Priam's Troy, advising the Trojan leadership alongside Hector during the war councils described in the Iliad.
Priam was a young prince during the first sack of Troy led by Heracles and Telamon. The sack killed Laomedon and most of the royal family, but Priam survived to rebuild Troy — the city Telamon's son Ajax would later besiege.
Telephus married Astyoche, daughter of Priam, making him the Trojan king's son-in-law. This alliance led Telephus to refuse to fight against Troy even after guiding the Greeks there.
Teucer was Priam's nephew through his mother Hesione, Priam's sister. This Trojan blood made Teucer's position at Troy deeply conflicted — he fought against his own maternal kin.
Priam ruled as king of Troy throughout the Trojan War and lost most of his fifty sons to the conflict. His night visit to Achilles to ransom Hector's body is among the Iliad's most celebrated scenes.
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