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battlinghurricanes · 3 years ago

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Thinking about how Priam wasn't Laomedon's oldest son. How, depending on how many of his brothers were older, he could have had very good reason to believe he'd never become king. How unprepared was he to have that position forced upon him when all the rest of his family was killed? How young and afraid was he when he had to take that on his shoulders in the wake of Heracles saking the city and murdering his father and brothers?

I wonder how that made him raise Hektor. He might have gone to great lengths to ensure he would never have to become king as unprepared and as lost as he did. How much did he train him with the hope that he could prevail, endure, what overcame the city before, that he could survive what no other man of his family did but him?

Was Hektor born before or after Priam took the throne? Was he born to a king with the path to one day take his place already set before him? Or did Priam watch the fate of a son he already knew change to something even Priam himself didn't feel ready for?

#the iliad #my posts #priam #hektor #hector of troy #i feel like this might seem like priam was a bad dad or hektor had some tragic childhood if he trained him hard #which isnt what i mean at all #just musing on how priams past might have made him think about the future of his own kids #id never really thought about if hektor was born before or after Priam was king but now im kinda obsessed #could he have been alive during the first sack of troy??????#ALSO the parallels with scamandrius being called astyanax #fathers seeing their sons be claimed by a fate by the fact of being their sons #tho neither hektor nor astyanax fulfilled it #like their fate given by humans was to become king but their fate given by the gods was to die

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