So the big head honcho in Troy is named Priam. His son Paris got everyone into this mess, and another son Hektor is the great warrior everyone takes seriously. Now, amongst the people killed, I'd noticed quite a few others were named "the son of Priam." Guy has a lot of sons, I thought, but I wasn't counting.
Then lines 242-246 of book six came along:
"Now he entered the wonderfully built palace of Priam.
This was fashioned with smooth-stone cloister walks, and within it
were embodied fifty sleeping chambers of smoothed stone
built so as to connect with each other; and within these slept
each beside his own wedded wife, the sons of Priam."
FIFTY sons? Plus twelve daughters elucidated in the next few lines! The dude must have a freaking harem, and a big one at that!
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