Pliny, who places him among the painters of the second rank, mentions two works by him: one showing Ancaeus wounded by the boar and mourned over by his mother Astypalaea, and another containing figures of Priam, Helen, Ulysses, Deiphobus, Dolon, and Credulitas.
Battle in the palace of Priam, pen and brown ink, retints in white gouache, traces of stylus, brown wash paper, Paris, Musée du Louvre, département des Arts graphiques, inv.
Here he discovered the ruins of a series of ancient cities, dating from the Bronze Age to the Roman period.
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In 1871-73 and 1878–79, Schliemann excavated a hill called Hissarlik in the Ottoman Empire, near the town of Chanak (Çanakkale) in north-western Anatolia.
Priam | King Priam |
Mygdon of Phrygia, in Greek mythology, king who was an ally of King Priam of Troy
He led a force of Phrygians against the Amazons alongside his comrades Otreus (another Phrygian leader) and King Priam of Troy, one generation before the Trojan War.
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 daughters Creusa, Laodice, Polyxena, and the prophetess Cassandra.
In this deft sequel, 10 less-famous Trojan officers get their chance to tell their stories, and speak freely about Troy’s major players, including Hector, Priam, and Polydamas.
Myth provides explanations for this confrontation in assuming that their king Telephus was married to Laodice, the daughter of King Priam.
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However he declined their offer, claiming that he was the son-in-law of King Priam through his wife Laodice.