<P> Priam was originally called Podarces--the established epithet of Achilles in the Iliad--and he kept himself from being killed by Heracles by giving him a golden veil embroidered by his sister, Hesione . After this, Podarces changed his name to Priam . This is a folk etymology based on πριατός priatós, "ransomed" from πρίασθαι príasthai, "to buy". </P> <P> In Iliad, Book 3, Priam tells Helen of Troy that he once helped King Mygdon of Phrygia to defend against the Amazons . </P> <P> When Hector is killed by Achilles, the Greek warrior treats the body with disrespect and refuses to give it back . 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 . He invokes the memory of Achilles' own father, Peleus . Priam begs Achilles to pity him, saying "I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before--I put my lips to the hands of the man who killed my son ." Deeply moved, Achilles relents and returns Hector's corpse to the Trojans . Both sides agree to a temporary truce, and Achilles gives Priam leave to hold a proper funeral for Hector, complete with funeral games . He promises that no Greek will engage in combat for nine days, but on the twelfth day of peace, the mighty war between the Greeks and the Trojans would resume . </P> <P> Priam is killed during the Sack of Troy by Achilles' son Neoptolemus (also known as Pyrrhus). His death is graphically related in Book II of Virgil's Aeneid . In Virgil's description, Neoptolemus first kills Priam's son Polites in front of his father as he seeks sanctuary on the altar of Zeus . Priam rebukes Neoptolemus, throwing a spear at him, harmlessly hitting his shield . Neoptolemus then drags Priam to the altar and there kills him too . </P>

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