# Priam — Nicomachean Ethics character guide

> Priam in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-book-i

## Who they are

King of Troy, cited in discussions of misfortune.

## Relationships

### [Hector](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/characters/hector)

_family_

Priam is the father of Hector, king of Troy.

### [Homer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/characters/homer)

_professional_

Homer portrays Priam as a character in the Iliad, the king of Troy.

## In the story

### [Book I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/book-i)

Used as an example of a prosperous man who met with great disasters in old age, illustrating the instability of fortune.

### [Chapter IX: Happiness, Virtue, and the Human Condition](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/ix)

Cited as an example of a once-prosperous man who met great disasters in old age, illustrating that happiness requires a full term of years and cannot be claimed by those who end miserably.

### [Happiness, Fortune, and the End of Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/x)

Used as an example of a man who, though once happy, met with such great misfortunes that he could no longer be called truly happy.

### [Chapter I: Incontinence, Continence, and the Brutal Character](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as the speaker in Homer who says of Hector that he seemed not of mortal man but of a god.

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