Priam

Where he says...

I will not think about bloody war until the son of warlike Priam, illustrious Hector, comes to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons, slaughtering the Argives, and burning the ships with fire, and about my tent and dark ship, I suspect that Hector, although eager for the battle, will nevertheless stay his hand.

Now, do you really think, Hippias, that the son of Thetis, who had been the pupil of the sage Chiron, had such a bad memory or would have carried the art of lying to such an extent when he had been assailing liars in the most violent terms only an instant before as to say to odysseus that he would sail away and to ajax that he would remain

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Yeah.

I couldn't remember if Hecuba was actually the wife of Priam, but in my head, they are paired together, so I was like, that's what I would guess.

Yeah.

Great name, Hecuba.

That's right.

And somebody in this case, like Priam, saying, you know what? We did wrong.

It is causing the deaths of thousands of our citizens.

The right thing to do is to give Helen back.

No need for such an outburst.

Get a grip on yourself, distraught as you are.

Just for the sake of rivalry, soldiers' pride, don't rush to fight with a better man, with Hector, the son of Priam.

Many others shrink before him.

Okay, so he says, on with it now.

If you have a backbone and you let's trade blows, you'll tell the ghost of Priam that you found an Achilles even here.

But the thing is, Achilles was the exact same way.

After Patroclus died, there were people begging at his feet to be spared.

And not because their motive was right, because it was not.

No.

Because the Trojans, pretty much everybody except for Paris and Priam were amazing people.

Single person, I think.

And then he drags Hector's body back to the camp.

And the final thing is that King Priam visits Achilles in his tent and begs for the body back.

Achilles gives the body back, and then it ends with the funeral rites of Hector.

That is the entirety of the Iliad.

They are not foaming at the mouth like the Agamemnon and Menelaus of Troy.

So how much of the actual text of this story does describe she's just so hot that all of this makes sense? There's a

scene early on where King Priam is observing her walking down Like the ramparts or whatever, and expresses how her beauty is almost like otherworldly.

His eyes lay upon her and he understands why a war would be fought over her.