The best-known instance is when Priam, the king of Troy, enters Achilles’ tent to ask for the return of the son and kisses the hands of the man who killed him.

View Two Works: Priam begging Achilles to return Hector's body; Achilles after Hector's death approaches Patrocle's funeral bed (1826) By Misbach Constant; pen and brown ink, watercolour; 14 x 17 cm; ...

A novel exploring the encounter from the “Iliad” between King Priam of Troy and his bitter enemy Achilles. ... the “Iliou Persis,” or “Sack of Troy,” and often represented in ancient art.

By the time Penthesilea encounters Achilles (Sam Shea) again and manages to strike him in his one mortal body part, Priam's family and Troy as a whole are in decline despite her best efforts.

View Achilles dragging the body of Hector round the Walls of Troy King Priam pleading for the body of Hector 2 works by Gavin Hamilton on artnet. ... (+ King Priam pleading for the body of Hector; 2 ...

Now Priam’s mission is to beg for the body of his beloved son, Hector, whom Achilles killed to avenge the death of his own companion, Patroclus. At Achilles’ knees, Priam supplicates ...

Rigid and lifeless in the hands of the Greek warrior Neoptolemus (son of the dead Achilles), little Astyanax has been reduced to a weapon of war. It is Priam’s worst, and his final, moment.

In a critical scene in Wolfgang Petersen’s “Troy,” the Trojan King Priam, played by Peter O’Toole, makes a midnight visit to the tent of the Greek warrior Achilles (Brad Pitt) to beg for ...

Beside him sits his father, King Priam, another lump of clay resembling a battered breastplate, fated to watch as Hector’s vanquisher, the Greek hero Achilles (invulnerable save for that pesky ...