Priam

Also known as: Priamus · Family: Troy · Role: father of Hector · First appears: Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III

Life events

• Hector defies Priam’s prohibition and departs to fight the Greeks.(Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene III)
  • With: Hector
  • “Go in, and cheer the town; we’ll forth, and fight, Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night.”
• Margarelon reveals that he is Priam’s bastard son.(Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene VII)
  • With: Margarelon
  • “A bastard son of Priam’s.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III

• child: Hector “We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy / A prince called Hector—Priam is his father—”

Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene II

• child: Hector (Troilus refers to Hector as his brother and Priam as their father.) “Fie, fie, my brother! Weigh you the worth and honour of a king, So great as our dread father’s, in a scale Of common ounces?”
• child: Troilus (Troilus refers to Hector as his brother and Priam as their father.) “Fie, fie, my brother! Weigh you the worth and honour of a king, So great as our dread father’s, in a scale Of common ounces?”
• child: Helenus “Should not our father Bear the great sway of his affairs with reason, Because your speech hath none that tells him so?”

Troilus and Cressida · Act IV, Scene V

• child: Troilus “The youngest son of Priam, a true knight;”

Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene III

• with Andromache (Andromache addresses her father-in-law, Priam, as father.) “Do not, dear father.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene VII

• child: Margarelon “A bastard son of Priam’s.”

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