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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.
Trojan War 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
• 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
Briseis References
• Briseis - Carlos Parada
• Briseis Cup Pictures of Briseis
• Briseis Pictures and quotes about Briseis from Stanford.
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