Priam

Priam

Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous".- Marriage and issue :...

, the mythical king of Troy

Troy

Troy was a city, both factual and legendary, located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida...

 during the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad...

, supposedly had 50 sons and (on some accounts) 50 daughters. Priam had several wives, the primary one Hecuba

Hecuba

Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children. These children included several major characters of Homer's Iliad such as the warriors Hector and Paris, and the prophetess Cassandra...

, daughter of Dymas

Dymas

In Greek mythology, Dymas is the name attributed to at least four individuals.- Dymas :The first Dymas was a Phrygian king and father of Hecuba , wife to King Priam of Troy...

 or Cisseus

Cisseus

In Greek mythology, Cisseus was a Thracian king and father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, as related in Homer's Iliad. His wife was Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy....

, and several concubines, who bore his children. There is no exhaustive list, but many of them are mentioned in various Greek myths.

The three main sources for the names of the children of Priam are: Homer

Homer

In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...

's Iliad

Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...

, where a number of his sons are briefly mentioned among the defenders of Troy

Troy

Troy was a city, both factual and legendary, located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida...

; and two lists in Apollodorus

Apollodorus

Apollodorus of Athens son of Asclepiades, was a Greek scholar and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius the Stoic, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace...

' Bibliotheca and Hyginus

Hyginus

Hyginus can refer to:People:*Gaius Julius Hyginus , Roman poet, author of Fabulae, reputed author of Poeticon astronomicon*Hyginus Gromaticus, Roman surveyor*Pope Hyginus, also a saint, Bishop of Rome about 140...

' Fabulae. Some of the daughters taken captive at the end of the war are mentioned by Pausanias, who in his turn refers to paintings by Polygnotus

Polygnotus

Polygnotus was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC, son and pupil of Aglaophon. He was a native of Thasos, but was adopted by the Athenians, and admitted to their citizenship....

 in the Lesche

Lesche

Lesche is an Ionic Greek word, signifying council or conversation, and a place for council or conversation. There is frequent mention of places of public resort, in the Greek cities, by the name of leschai , some set apart for the purpose, and others so called because they were so used by...

 of Delphi

Delphi

Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis.In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god...

.

These are summarized by author below.

Sons

Name	Mentioned by Homer	Mentioned by Apollodorus	Mentioned by Hyginus	Mother, if known	Notes
Hector Hector In Greek mythology, Hectōr , or Hektōr, is a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War. As the first-born son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, a descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of Troy, he was a prince of the royal house and the...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba Hecuba Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children. These children included several major characters of Homer's Iliad such as the warriors Hector and Paris, and the prophetess Cassandra...	Central Trojan hero in Trojan War; heir presumptive; killed by Achilles, who attached Hector's body to carriage and dragged it around city.
Paris Paris (mythology) Paris , the son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba	Raised as a shepherd; his abduction of Helen launched the Trojan War; killed by Philoctetes Philoctetes Philoctetes or Philocthetes according to Greek mythology, the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War. He was the subject of at least two plays by Sophocles, one of which is named after him, and one each by both... .
Deiphobus Deiphobus In Greek mythology, Deiphobus was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba	Maybe the most cunning of Trojan princes, married Helen after Paris' death. He was slain during the sack of Troy by Odysseus Odysseus Odysseus or Ulysses was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....  and/or Menelaus Menelaus Menelaus may refer to;*Menelaus, one of the two most known Atrides, a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope*Menelaus on the Moon, named after Menelaus of Alexandria.*Menelaus , brother of Ptolemy I Soter... .
Helenus Helenus Helenus was a Trojan soldier and prophet in the Trojan War.In Greek mythology, Helenus was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, and the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra. He was also called Scamandrios. According to legend, Cassandra, having been given the power of prophecy by...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba	The twin of Cassandra and, like his sister, a seer. Lost out to Deiphobus Deiphobus In Greek mythology, Deiphobus was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris...  in competing for the hand of Helen after Paris' death. Later marries Andromache Andromache In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebe, over which her father ruled... .
Polydorus Polydorus In Greek mythology, Polydorus referred to several different people.*An Argive, son of Hippomedon...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba	Killed by King Polymestor Polymestor In Greek mythology, Polymestor was a King of Thrace. His wife was Ilione, the eldest daughter of King Priam. Polymestor appears in Euripides' play, Hecuba and in the Ovidian myth "Hecuba, Polyxena and Polydorus"...  of Thrace during or after the Fall of Troy
Troilus Troilus Troilus is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba	Possibly fathered by Apollo
Polites Polites In Greek mythology, Polites referred to two different people, both of whom feature as minor characters in the epics by Homer.*Polites was a member of Odysseus's crew...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba	Killed by Neoptolemus Neoptolemus Neoptolemus was the son of the warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia in Greek mythology. Achilles' mother foretold many years before Achilles' birth that there would be a great war. She saw that her only son was to die if he fought in the war...  when Troy was sacked
Hippothous Hippothous In Greek mythology Hippothous is the name of seven men.1. Hippothous son of Cercyon. He was one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. He later inherited the kingdom of Arcadia when king Agapenor did not return from the Trojan War. His successor was his son, Aepytus.2. Hippothous, son of Lethus...	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kebriones Kebriones In Greek mythology, Kebriones was the illegitimate son of King Priam of Troy and a slave. In the Iliad he was the half-brother of Hector and his final charioteer during the Trojan War. Along with Hektor and Paris he was part of the division that finally breached the Argive wall...	Yes	Yes	Yes		Killed by Patroclus Patroclus In Greek mythology, as recorded in the Iliad by Homer, Patroclus, or Patroklos , was the son of Menoetius, grandson of Actor, King of Opus, and was Achilles' beloved comrade and brother-in-arms....  with a stone
Gorgythion Gorgythion In Greek mythology, Gorgythion was one of the sons of King Priam of Troy at the time of the Trojan War and appears as a minor character in Homer's Iliad. His mother was Castianeira of Aisyme.-Period:...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Castianeira	Killed in battle by Teucer Teucer In Greek mythology Teucer, also Teucrus or Teucris , was the son of King Telamon of Salamis Island and his second wife Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy. He fought alongside his half-brother, Ajax, in the Trojan War and is the legendary founder of the city Salamis on Cyprus... , whose arrow was aimed at Hector
Agathon Agathon Agathon was an Athenian tragic poet whose works, up to the present moment, have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in . He is also a prominent character in...	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mestor Mestor In Greek mythology, Mestor was name of two men.# Mestor was a son of Perseus and Andromeda. He was brother of Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Sthenelus, Electryon, Cynurus, Gorgophone and Autochthoe.# Another Mestor was a son of King Priam....	Yes	Yes	Yes		Killed by Achilles
Chromius	Yes	Yes	Yes		Killed by Diomedes Diomedes Diomedes or Diomed is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his maternal grandfather, Adrastus. In Homer's Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax as one of the best warriors of all...
Doryclus Doryclus In Greek mythology, Doryclus is a son of king Priam mentioned in Homer's Iliad, Hyginus's Fabulae and Apollodorus's Bibliotheca. His mother's name is unknown. Killed by Ajax....	Yes	Yes	Yes		Killed by Ajax Ajax (mythology) Ajax or Aias was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus , he is called "Telamonian Ajax," "Greater...
Democoon Democoon In Greek mythology, Democoon is a son of king Priam mentioned in Homer's Iliad, Hyginus's Fabulae and Apollodorus's Bibliotheca. His mother's name is unknown....	Yes	Yes	Yes		Killed by Odysseus in his rage of a lost comrade at the spear of Antiphus
Antiphus Antiphus In Greek mythology, Antiphus or Ántiphos is a name attributed to multiple individuals:*Antiphus, one of the 50 sons of Priam, and son of Hecuba. During the Trojan War, he was killed by Agamemnon....	Yes	Yes	No	Hecuba	Killed by Agamemnon Agamemnon In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes. Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area...
Lycaon Lycaon (son of Priam) Lycaon , in Greek mythology, was a son of Priam and Laothoe. During the Trojan War, Lycaon was captured by Achilles while cutting branches in Priam's orchard. Achilles sold him as a slave to Euneus of Lemnos, but Eetion of Imbros bought him and took him back to Troy...	Yes	Yes	No	Laothoe	Killed by Achilles
Pammon Pammon Pammon , in Greek mythology, is one of the sons of Priam and Hecuba according to Apollodorus of Athens and Homer.Apollodorus says that Priam had nine sons and four daughters by Hecuba, the sons being Hector, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, Pammon, Polites, Antiphus, Hipponous, Polydorus, and the...	Yes	Yes	No	Hecuba	Killed by Neoptolemus when Troy was sacked
Dius	Yes	No	Yes
Isus Isus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Isus was one of the sons of king Priam mentioned in Homer's Iliad. His mother's name is unknown. He was killed by Agamemnon. Was known as brother of Antiphus, son of Priam and Hecuba. Not much is known of Isus other than small mentions or relatives....	Yes	No	No		Killed by Agamemnon
Antiphonus	Yes	No	No		Killed by Neoptolemus when Troy was sacked
Echemmon	Yes	No	No		Killed by Diomedes
Archemachus	No	Yes	Yes
Aretus Aretus In Greek mythology, Aretus or Árêtos was one of several characters:#King Aretus of Pylos was a son of Nestor and Eurydice .#Aretus of Troy was one of fifty sons of Priam. He was killed by Automedon....	No	Yes	Yes		Killed by a spear from Automedon Automedon In Greek mythology, Automedon , son of Diores, was Achilles' charioteer. In Homer's Iliad, he rides into battle once Patroclus has donned Achilles's armor, commanding Achilles' horses Balius and Xanthos. After Patroclus's death, Automedon is driven to the rear of the battle, where he attempts to...
Ascanius	No	Yes	Yes
Deiopites	No	Yes	Yes		Killed by Meges when Troy was sacked
Dryops Dryops Dryops may refer to:* Dryops, a genus of beetles in family DryopidaeIn Greek mythology:* Dryops, a son of King Priam of Troy* Dryops , a king of Oeta & son of river-god Spercheus* Dryops, a son of Apollo by Dia...	No	Yes	Yes		Killed by Achilles
Evagoras	No	Yes	Yes
Evander	No	Yes	Yes
Polymedon Polymedon In Greek mythology, Polymedon is a son of king Priam mentioned in Hyginus's Fabulae and Apollodorus's Bibliotheca. His mother's name is unknown....	No	Yes	Yes
Aegeoneus	No	Yes	No
Aesacus Aesacus Aesacus or Aisakos , in Greek mythology, was a son of King Priam of Troy. Aesacus sorrowed for the death of his wife or would-be lover, a daughter of the river Cebren, and was transformed into a bird....	No	Yes	No	Arisbe Arisbe (daughter of Merops) In Greek mythology, Arisbe was a daughter of Merops of Percote, a seer. In a non-Homeric story, she married Priam, later king of Troy, and bore him a son named Aesacus. Priam subsequently divorced her in favor of Hecuba, daughter of King Dymas of Phrygia...  or Alexirhoe	Turned into a diving bird
Astygonus	No	Yes	No
Atas	No	Yes	No
Bias	No	Yes	No
Chersidamas	No	Yes	No		Killed by Odysseus
Clonius	No	Yes	No
Echephron Echephron Echephron is the name of three characters in Greek mythology.*Echephron, a son of Nestor and Eurydice .*Echephron, a son of Priam, king of Troy....	No	Yes	No
Glaucus	No	Yes	No
Hippodamas	No	Yes	No		Killed by Achilles
Hipponous Hipponous In Greek mythology, Hipponous referred to several people:*One was the father of Capaneus and Periboea with Astymone.*Another was one of the fifty sons of Priam.*Another was the last Trojan who Achilles killed before his death....	No	Yes	No	Hecuba	Killed by Achilles just before the latter's death
Hyperion	No	Yes	No
Hyperochus	No	Yes	Yes
Idomeneus	No	Yes	No
Laodocus	No	Yes	No
Lysithous	No	Yes	No
Melanippus Melanippus In Greek mythology, there were nine people named Melanippus :#One of the sons of Agrius, killed by Diomedes.#Son of Perigune and Theseus, the father of Ioxus who, together with Ornytus, led a colony to Caria and became the ancestor of the family Ioxides.#Son of Astacus, defended Thebes in Seven...	No	Yes	No		Shot to death by Teucer Teucer In Greek mythology Teucer, also Teucrus or Teucris , was the son of King Telamon of Salamis Island and his second wife Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy. He fought alongside his half-brother, Ajax, in the Trojan War and is the legendary founder of the city Salamis on Cyprus...
Mylius Mylius Mylius is a surname, and may refer to:* Erling Mylius* Edward Mylius* Johann Daniel Mylius* Jørgen de Mylius* Ludvig Mylius-ErichsenMylius may also refer to:* Mylius A son of Priam King of Troy* The corporate font of British Airways...	No	Yes	No
Philaemon	No	Yes	No
Telestas	No	Yes	No
Antinous	No	No	Yes
Astynomus	No	No	Yes
Axion Axion The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle postulated by the Peccei-Quinn theory in 1977 to resolve the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics...	No	No	Yes		Killed by Eurypylus Eurypylus In Greek mythology, Eurypylus was the name of several different people.-Son of Thestius:One Eurypylus was a son of Thestius. He participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, during which he insulted Atalanta and was killed by Meleager.-Son of Euaemon:Another Eurypylus was a Thessalian king,...
Biantes	No	No	Yes
Brissonius	No	No	Yes
Cheirodamas	No	No	Yes
Chrysolaus	No	No	Yes
Dolon	No	No	Yes
Eresus	No	No	Yes
Hero(n)	No	No	Yes
Hippasus Hippasus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Hippasus is the name of nine characters.*Hippasus, father of Hippomedon, by the nymph Ocyrrhoe, and also of Charops, Socus, Agelaus, and Pammon.*Hippasus, son of Eurytus...	No	No	Yes
Hipposidus	No	No	Yes
Ilagus	No	No	Yes
Lysides	No	No	Yes
Palaemon Palaemon Palaemon may refer to:In Greek mythology:*Palaemon, epithet of Heracles*Palaemon, son of Heracles by either Autonoe or Iphinoe*Palaemon, the name that Melicertes received upon deification...	No	No	Yes
Polymelus	No	No	Yes
Proneos	No	No	Yes
Protodamas	No	No	Yes

Daughters

Name	Mentioned by Homer	Mentioned by Apollodorus	Mentioned by Hyginus	Mentioned by Pausanias	Mother, if known	Notes
Cassandra Cassandra In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba Hecuba Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children. These children included several major characters of Homer's Iliad such as the warriors Hector and Paris, and the prophetess Cassandra...	Priestess of Apollo, by him given the gift of prophecy, but cursed to never be believed
Laodice Laodice (mythology) Laodice was the daughter of Priam of Troy and Hecuba. She is described as the most beautiful of Priam's daughters. Laodice refers to Helen as her junior even though Helen is probably 34 years old and yet she is more beautiful than her sister Cassandra, who might be eighteen at the same time and who...	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hecuba Hecuba Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children. These children included several major characters of Homer's Iliad such as the warriors Hector and Paris, and the prophetess Cassandra...	Homer calls her the most beautiful of Priam's daughters
Medesicaste	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Was betrothed to Imbrius
Creusa Creusa In Greek mythology, four people had the name Creusa ; the name simply means "princess".-Naiad:According to Pindar's 9th Pythian Ode, Creusa was a naiad and daughter of Gaia who bore Hypseus, King of the Lapiths to the river god Peneus. Hypseus had one daughter, Cyrene. When a lion attacked her...	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		Married to Aeneas Aeneas Aeneas , in Greco-Roman mythology, was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed. The journey of Aeneas from Troy , which led to the founding a hamlet south of...
Medusa	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Aristomache	No	No	No	Yes		Was married to Critolaus, son of Hicetaon Hicetaon In Greek mythology, Hicetaon was a son of King Laomedon of Troy. After Paris kidnapped Helen of Troy, Hicetaon suggested that she be returned to Menelaus to avoid war. His son was Melanippus, who died in the war Hicetaon had sought to avert....
Aristodeme	No	Yes	No	No
Lysimache Lysimache Lysimache is the name of two characters in Greek mythology:*Lysimache, daughter of Abas and Cyrene. She married king Talaus of Argos and bore him these children: Adrastus, Parthenopaeus, Mecisteus, Hippomedon, Pronax, Aristomachus, and Eriphyle....	No	Yes	No	No
Polyxena Polyxena In Greek mythology, Polyxena was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. She is considered the Trojan version of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Polyxena is not in Homer's Iliad, appearing in works by later poets, perhaps to add romance to Homer's...	No	Yes	No	Yes	Hecuba Hecuba Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children. These children included several major characters of Homer's Iliad such as the warriors Hector and Paris, and the prophetess Cassandra...	Sacrificed on Achilles's tomb to cause a wind back to Greece
Demnosia	No	No	Yes	No
Demosthea	No	No	Yes	No
Ethionome	No	No	Yes	No
Henicea	No	No	Yes	No
Iliona Ilione In Greek mythology, Ilione was the oldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her husband was the Thracian king Polymestor. She is briefly mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid: Aeneas gives her scepter to Dido....	No	No	Yes	No
Lysianassa	No	No	Yes	No
Nereis	No	No	Yes	No
Phegea	No	No	Yes	No
Philomela	No	No	Yes	No

Pausanias enlists several more Trojan captive women, who may or may not be daughters of Priam: Clymene, Xenodice, Deinome, Metioche, Peisis, Cleodice. He remarks, however, that of these only Clymene and Deinome were mentioned in literary sources known to him, and that the rest of the names could have been invented by Polygnotus.