Priam Saw 13 of His Sons Die in the Trojan War HECUBA a Queen

ELECTRA (PLEIAD) ZEUS Daughter of Atlas|Raped by Father of Zeus|Referred to as the lost Pleiad, disappearing in grief after Gods and Men TROJANS the destruction of Troy House of Troy DARDANUS BATEA GREEKS Dardanus founded LEDA House of Atreus the Trojan Race Wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta ERICHTHONIUS ASTYOCHE PLUTO | Zeus seduced her in the guise Erichthonius reigned peacefully for sixty five A nymph of Mount Sipylos of a swan|Which children are the years and was succeeded by his son Tros in western Anatolia |one progeny of Tyndareus, the mortal of the 3000 Oceanids king, and which are of Zeus and TROS CALLIRRHOE thus half-immortal, is not consis- Tros is the eponym of Troy TANTALUS DIONE ILUS EURYDICE tent among accounts Tantalus cut up his son and served him up in a banquet for the gods Ilus was instructed by an oracle to build the city of Troy LAOMEDON LEUCIPPE POLLUX CASTOR Laomedon persuaded Poseidon and Apollo to build the & city walls of Troy and then never rewarded them Twin brothers|Though accounts PELOPS HIPPODAMIA NIOBE AEGINA of their birth are varied, many Pelops’s father boiled him Niobe’s fourteen children were PRIAM HECUBA Nymph of the island that say Castor was the mortal son alive and fed him to the gods slain before her eyes The Last King of Troy| A queen|Wife of King Priam bears her name|daughter of Tyndareus, and Pollux the Priam saw 13 of his sons during the Trojan War, with of the river-god Asopus divine son of Zeus die in the Trojan War whom she had 19 children CLYTEMNESTRA AEROPE ATREUS THYESTES With her lover Aegisthus’s help, Atreus was exiled by his father In revenge, Atreus serves Thyestes AEACUS ENDEIS Clytemnestra killed her husband for killing his half-brother his own sons for dinner CASSANDRA Aeacus was king of the (Agamemnon) to avenge the death Apollo gave her the power of prophecy in order to island of Aegina, renowned in all of her daughter, Iphigenia seduce her, but when she refused him, he gave her Greece for his justice and piety the curse of never being believed HELEN MENELAUS AGAMEMNON PELOPIA Already married to Leader of the Greek forces during TROILUS PELEUS THETIS Leader of the Spartan + THYESTES Menelaus, Helen of Troy Regarded as a paragon of youthful male Pelius was first married to Anti- contingent of the Greek the Trojan War|When the Greeks Thyestes committed bigamously wed Paris beauty|ambushed and murdered by Achilles gone. After her death, he married army|Menelaus challenges sailed for Troy, Agamemnon incest with his the sea nymph Thetis with whom Paris to a duel for Helen’s reluctantly agreed to the sacrifice daughter, Pelopia, and CREUSA he had seven sons, six of whom return. Before he can kill his daughter Iphigenia to gain impregnated her; she Eldest daughter|Died fleeing from died in infancy—the only surviving Paris and claim victory, favorable winds|Aegisthus and gave birth to Aegisthus Troy and her ghost then prophesied the future son was Achilles. Aphrodite spirits Paris away. Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon. and abandoned him.

POLYDORUS ACHILLES AEGISTHUS Prium’s youngest son| Greek hero of the Trojan War| Clytemnestra’s lover| In the Iliad he is killed by Achilles The central character and great- Helped kill Agamemnon est warrior of Homer’s Iliad. HECTOR ELECTRA IPHIGENIA CHRYSOTHEMIS ORESTES First-born son|The greatest hero of the Trojan War| Helps Orestes kill Sacrificed by her Some say she was killed Murders his Killed by Achillies who attached his body to a HERMIONE Clytemnestra|Goes father, Agamemnon, by her brother Orestes mother, Clytemnestra, carriage and dragged it around the city Marries Orestes mad and tries to kill in order to gain when he avenged the and her lover, after he kills her husband, her sister favorable winds death of his father Aegisthus PARIS Neoptolemus Abducted Menelaus’s wife Helen which led to the Trojan War|Killed Achilles by shooting an arrow into his heel Sources: Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World edited by John Roberts, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, and the Oxford Classical Dictionary edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Photo of Mark L. Montgomery and Stephanie Andrea Barron (joe mazza/brave lux inc).