PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos)
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V22,
Page 313
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos)
, in See also:Greek See also:legend, the last See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Troy, son of See also:Laomedon and See also:brother of See also:Tithonus
.
Little is known of him before the Trojan See also:War, which See also:broke out when he was advanced in years
.
According to Monier (Iliad, iii
.
184) in his
youth he fought on the See also:side of the Phrygians against the See also:Amazons
.
He had fifty sons and fifty daughters, and possessed immense See also:wealth
.
He appears only twice on the See also:scene of See also:action during the war—to make arrangements for the See also:duel between See also:Paris and See also:Menelaus, and to beg the See also:body of See also:Hector for See also:burial from See also:Achilles, whom he visits in his See also:tent by See also:night
.
He was said to have been slain by See also:Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, during the See also:sack of Troy (See also:Virgil, Aencid, ii
.
512)
.
See under TROY, on the legends
.
End of Article: PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos)
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