Briseis

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Related Terms • Helen of Troy • Achilles • Aegisthus • Aerope • Agamemnon • Andromache • Aulis • Briseis • Calchas • Cassandra • Clytemnestra • Diomedes • Dioscuri - Castor and Pollux • Hecuba • Iphigenia • Menelaus • Odysseus • Orestes • Paris • Polyxena • Telephus

Definition: After Achilles killed Briseis' husband, King Mynes of Lyrnessus, he took Briseis as his concubine. When Agamemnon had to give up his own concubine, he commandeered Briseis. As a result, Achilles refused to fight for Agamemnon.

Although a concubine, Achilles loved Briseis and she him. Briseis laments over the dead boy of Patroclus that he had promised to persuade Achilles to marry her.

Shortly after the happy reunion between Achilles and Briseis, Achilles was killed in battle.

Related Resources:

Helen of Troy Basics
Information about Helen of Troy and Her Family of Origin.

Women of the Trojan War

Helen of Troy and the people who started the Trojan War

Trojan War Resources

Elsewhere on the Web:

Briseis - Carlos Parada

Briseis Cup
Pictures of Briseis

Briseis
Pictures and quotes about Briseis from Stanford.

Early Greek Myth : A Guide to Literary & Artistic Sources

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