Briseis
The third leading woman, Briseis, was much more the product of director Wolfgang Petersen and writer David Benioff's imagination. Briseis was the name of Achilles' war prize who was taken by Agamemnon and then returned. Other than that and the fact that Achilles and Briseis seem to have loved each other, her character is fictitious. She was married and not the virgin priestess of Apollo. Homer doesn't call her a cousin of Hector. Briseis was taken by Agamemnon when he had to return to the priest of Apollo, Chryses, his own war prize, Chryseis.The movie is spectacular. With a quick advance re-read of the Iliad, so you don't get too confused between what happened in legend and what is a development from the godless plot, it is definitely worth seeing.
