In Greek mythology, Hicetaon is a Trojan prince, son of King Laomedon and brother of Priam. Homer seats him among the Trojan elders at the Scaean gates; after Paris takes Helen he argues for returning her to Menelaus to avert war. His son Melanippus dies fighting at Troy. Distinct from the Lesbian Hicetaon of Methymna slain by Achilles.
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I.Trojan elder
Homer names Hicetaon among Laomedon's sons with Tithonus, Priam, and Clytius, and among the grey-haired counsellors who sit with Priam above the gates. Apollodorus likewise places him in the Laomedontid house.
When Paris' abduction of Helen threatens Troy, tradition credits Hicetaon with urging that Helen be given back — counsel that fails, and that his own house will pay for when Melanippus falls.
II.Sons and homonyms
His best-attested son is Melanippus (atlas melanippus-hicetaonid), a Trojan champion of Percote. Other genealogies assign him Critolaus or, in Virgil alone, make Thymoetes his son rather than his brother; some scholia even connect Antenor to his line.
The atlas id hicetaon-trojan is the Laomedontid elder of the Iliad, not the Methymnaean prince of Lesbos killed in Achilles' island raids.