Priam
a King of Phrygia, and the last sovereign of Troy. Soon after his accession, the discovery of a gold mine in his kingdom enabled him to enlarge and beautify his capital, and raise a powerful army. By his first wife he had only one child; but by Hecuba, his second queen, he had a numerous family.
The perfidy of his son Paris in eloping with Helen led to the long and fatal war, which, after enduring for 10 years, terminated in the entire overthrow of the state, death of most of his sons, and his own murder by Pyrrhus, about 1184 B. C.