Apollo first purified him before his own altar at Delphi, and then defended him before the court of the Areopagus, which had been founded by Athene. […] Priam perished before the altar of Zeus. […] He then stretched himself on the floor, and soon fell asleep before the fire. […] The dead bodies were thrown before the temple of their own god. […] It is probable he lived about a thousand years before Christ.