Priam

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Priam

Epithets – huge, godlike

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Kind – agrees to return Helen to the Achaians

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Book 22

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Concerned - begs Hektor to come inside the city

walls and not face Achilles

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Devastated – rolls around in mud as he is so

despaired by the death of Hektor

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Desperate – begs Achilles to stop dragging

around his son’s corpse

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Forlorn – wallows in dung because he is so

miserable

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Angry – yells at his other sons because they’re

worthless compared to Hektor

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Desperate – offers Achilles practically all of

his riches in return for Hektor’s body

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Weak – is a king but kneels down to Achilles and

kisses his hands

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Respectful – gives Hektor a proper burial