Priam. In Greek mythology, Priam was the legendary king of Troy during the Trojan War.
His many children included notable characters like Hector and Paris. Most scholars take the etymology of the name from the Luwian and was attested as the name of a man from Zazlippa, in Kizzuwatna.
A similar form is attested transcribed in Greek as Paramoas near Kaisareia in Cappadocia. A popular folk etymology derives the name from the Greek verb priamai, meaning to buy.
This in turn gives rise to a story of Priam's sister Hesione ransoming his freedom from Heracles, thereby buying him. This story is attested in the Bibliotheca and in other influential mythographical works dated to the first and second centuries AD. These sources should be taken with a grain of salt, however, as they do date to a much later period in antiquity than the first attestations of the name Priamos or Pariya-muwas are found in. In Book 3 of Homer's Iliad, Priam tells Helen of Troy that he once helped King Mygdon of Phrygia in a battle against the Amazons.
When Hector is killed by Achilles, the Greek warrior treats the body with disrespect and refuses to give it back. According to Homer in book XXIV of the Iliad, Zeus sends the god Hermes to escort King Priam, Hector's father and the ruler of Troy, into the Greek camp. Priam tearfully pleads with Achilles to take pity on a father bereft of his son and return Hector's body.
His many children included notable characters like Hector and Paris. Most scholars take the etymology of the name from the Luwian and was attested as the name of a man from Zazlippa, in Kizzuwatna.
A similar form is attested transcribed in Greek as Paramoas near Kaisareia in Cappadocia. A popular folk etymology derives the name from the Greek verb priamai, meaning to buy.
This in turn gives rise to a story of Priam's sister Hesione ransoming his freedom from Heracles, thereby buying him. This story is attested in the Bibliotheca and in other influential mythographical works dated to the first and second centuries AD. These sources should be taken with a grain of salt, however, as they do date to a much later period in antiquity than the first attestations of the name Priamos or Pariya-muwas are found in. In Book 3 of Homer's Iliad, Priam tells Helen of Troy that he once helped King Mygdon of Phrygia in a battle against the Amazons.
When Hector is killed by Achilles, the Greek warrior treats the body with disrespect and refuses to give it back. According to Homer in book XXIV of the Iliad, Zeus sends the god Hermes to escort King Priam, Hector's father and the ruler of Troy, into the Greek camp. Priam tearfully pleads with Achilles to take pity on a father bereft of his son and return Hector's body.
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