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Priam
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Priam (prī`əm), in Greek mythology, king of Troy during the Trojan War, son of Laomedon. Priam had several wives and was the father of 50 sons and many daughters. His chief wife, Hecuba, bore him 19 children, including Hector, Paris, Polyxena, Helenus, Cassandra, Troilus, Creusa, Polydorus, and Deiphobus. When the Greeks sacked Troy, Priam was killed by Neoptolemus.

Priam

In Greek mythology, the last king of Troy. He succeeded his father Laomedon as king and gradually expanded Troy's control over the Hellespont. By his wife, Hecuba, he had many children, including Hector and Paris. He reigned during the Trojan War; in its final year he lost 13 sons, three of whom were killed by Achilles in a single day. Hector's death broke his spirit, and he went humbly to Achilles to ask for the corpse. When Troy fell, Achilles' son Neoptolemus killed the elderly Priam on an altar.
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After a dizzying exposition of the treacheries and desperate acts attendant to the last days of Artos, high king of Britain, in which everyone in his family except his daughter Goewin is killed, the story focuses on Goewin's flight to Aksum, in Africa, under the protection of Priamos, the Aksumite ambassador to Britain.
Elizabeth E. Wein A Coalition of Lions by Burkam, Anita L. / The Horn Book Magazine
She is in love with an Ethiopian prince, Ras Priamos, who has been the ambassador to Britain, but is now accused of being a traitor in his family.
Wein, Elizabeth E. A coalition of lions by Rosser, Claire / Kliatt
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