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Polydorus, Priam's youngest son, was sent with gifts of jewelry and gold to the court of King Polymestor to keep him safe during the Trojan War. The fighting was getting vicious and Priam was frightened for the child's safety. After Troy fell, Polymestor threw Polydorus to his death to take the treasure for himself. Hecuba eventually avenged her son.

When Hector was killed by Achilles, Priam walked into the Greek encampment and begged for Hector's body so he could be buried. Achilles agreed, though he had already dragged the body around Troy three times. In the sack of Troy, Priam was brutally murdered by Achilles's son Neoptolemus, in a scene memorialized both in VirgilFor other uses see Virgil (disambiguation). Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 19 BC) known in English as Virgil or Vergil Latin poet, is the author of the Eclogues the Georgics and the Aeneid this last being a narrative poem in twelve books that is's AeneidThe Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Form and Tradition The Aeneid is an epic poem of twelve books, in consc and Shakespeare's HamletThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays. Written between 1598 and the summer of 1602, this masterpiece of Elizabethan theatre first appeared in print in 1603 in a ver.

Priam's Children

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• By Hecuba: HectorIn Greek mythology, Hector ("holding fast"), or Hektor was a Trojan prince and the second greatest fighter in the Trojan War after Achilles. He was the eldest son of Priam and Hecuba. Homer calls him "breaker of horses," largely to maintain the meter of h, IlioneIn Greek mythology, Ilione was the oldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Aeneas gives her scepter to Dido in the Aeneid. Greek mythology., Creusa, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antiphus, Polites, Laodice, Paris, Cassandra, Polydorus, Polyxena, Tróáin .

• • Troilus (fathered by Apollo)

• By Laothoe: Lycaon

• Other: Cebriones

Put in order of age; complete.