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Priam

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Priam
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

1

king Priam

Title · Remembered

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

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·Remembered

Priam is king of the great city before which the Achaeans fight.

See evidence text
“fighting before the great city of king Priam”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

6
·Remembered
“the great city of king Priam”
·Reported
“the city of King Priam”
·Reported
“the city of Priam”
·Remembered
“the city of Priam”
·Disguised
“the city of Priam”
·Remembered
“it was through your stratagem that Priam’s city was taken.”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 12

‘My friend,’ answered Nestor, ‘you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under Achilles, and when fighting before the great city of king Priam. Our best men all of them fell there—Ajax, Achilles, Patroclus peer of gods in counsel, and my own dear son Antilochus, a man singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant. But we suffered much more than this; what mortal tongue indeed could tell the whole story? Though you were to stay here and question me for five years, or even six, I could not tell you all that the Achaeans suffered, and you would turn homeward weary of my tale before it ended. Nine long years did we try every kind of stratagem, but the hand of heaven was against us; during all this time there was no one who could compare with your father in subtlety—if indeed you are his son—I can hardly believe my eyes—and you talk just like him too—no one would say that people of such different ages could speak so much alike. He and I never had any kind of difference from first to last neither in camp nor council, but in singleness of heart and purpose we advised the Argives how all might be ordered for the best.