Priam

Reading notes

• The Art of Poetry §131-152 Priam's

  King of Troy; 'Of Priam's fortune will I sing' is Horace's parody of the bombastic cyclic poet's opening.

• The Odes §1.10 Priam

  King of Troy, whom Mercury guided safely through the Greek camp to ransom Hector's body.

• The Odes §1.15 Priam

  King of Troy, whose 'ancient kingdom' Greece is sworn to destroy.

• The Odes §3.3 Priam

  The Trojan king whose 'perjured house' no longer breaks the Achaeans.

• The Odes §4.6 Priam

  Whose court, 'glad in its dances,' the horse's stratagem deceived.

• The Satires §2.3 Priam's people

  Priam, aged king of Troy; he and the Trojans would exult to see the Greek champion Ajax left unburied.