Although Achilles himself will die before he has the chance to see his son again, he has a vision of Neoptolemus in the future: he sees his son, now a teenager, killing Priam during the final sack of Troy to avenge Achilles’s death.

Following the fall of Troy, Priam was killed by Achilles’ son, Neoptolemus, as he was seeking refuge on the altar of Zeus.

Odysseus

He envies Agamemnon for his position as a “warrior-king,” calling him a “blessed child of fortune and favor.” As king of the Trojans, Priam is bothered by his not having a duality of roles. Agamemnon, it seems, has the best of both worlds; he is both a warrior and a king.

The Iliad: List of characters

• Helen is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and is the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta.
• Briseis is a captive princess, taken and enslaved by the Greek forces in the course of the Trojan War and awarded to Achilles as a prize for his role in the fighting.

The movie opens with the infamous Helen of Sparta, said to be the most beautiful woman on earth. In Homer’s adaptation of the legend, The Iliad, it is alluded to that Helen willingly left her husband Menelaus to be with Paris, the king of Troy.

In Homer’s adaptation of the legend, The Iliad, it is alluded to that Helen willingly left her husband Menelaus to be with Paris, the king of Troy. Although there are several accounts where Helen is said to have been abducted, or stolen away, the movie sticks with the rendition of her leaving on her own accord.

When the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen–the beautiful wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta–and carried her off to the city of Troy, the Greeks responded by mounting an attack on the city, thus beginning the Trojan War. While Paris attempts to carry Helen off, she valiantly struggles against him.

Paris, also called Alexandros (Greek: “Defender”), in Greek legend, son of King Priam of Troy and his wife, Hecuba. A dream regarding his birth was interpreted as an evil portent, and he was consequently expelled from his family as an infant.

After the fall of Troy, Astyanax was hurled from the battlements of the city by either Odysseus or the Greek warrior—and son of Achilles—Neoptolemus. His death is described in the last epics of the so-called epic cycle (a collection of post-Homeric Greek poetry), The Little Iliad and The Sack of Troy.

Helen was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta (a fact Aphrodite neglected to mention), so Paris had to raid Menelaus’s house to steal Helen from him – according to some accounts, she fell in love with Paris and left willingly. When Paris took her to Troy, Menelaus invoked this oath.