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Briseis (/ b r aɪ ˈ s iː ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Βρισηίς, romanized: Brīsēís, lit. 'daughter of Briseus', pronounced [briːsɛːís] ), also known as Hippodameia ( Ἱπποδάμεια , [hippodámeːa] ), [ 2 ] is a significant character in the Iliad .
Briseis, a woman captured in the sack of Lyrnessus, a small town in the territory of Troy, and awarded to Achilles as a prize. Agamemnon takes her from Achilles in Book 1 and Achilles withdraws from battle as a result. Chryseis, Chryses’ daughter, taken as a war prize by Agamemnon. Clymene, servant of Helen along with her mother Aethra.
When Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles, he takes away a portion of the kleos he had earned. Achilles's shield, crafted by Hephaestus and given to him by his mother, Thetis, bears an image of stars in the centre. The stars conjure profound images of the place of a single man, no matter how heroic, in the perspective of the entire cosmos.
The plot begins when Greeks led by Achilles sack Lyrnessus, describing the looting and burning of the city, the massacre of its men and the abduction of its women including Briseis, the childless wife of king Mynes. When the women are handed out to the leaders of the Greek raiders, Briseis, as beautiful and of royal blood, is given to Achilles.
In Greek mythology, Pisidice (/ p aɪ ˈ s ɪ d ɪ s iː / py-SEE-dee-see; Ancient Greek: Πεισιδίκη, romanized: Peisidíkē) is a native of Methymna, an ancient Greek city state in the north of the island of Lesbos in the northeastern Aegean Sea. Pisidice is notable for her love for the hero Achilles who waged war against her homeland ...
Ajax stuns Paris by hitting him with a rock, forcing Paris to give up his attempt to take the corpse. The Greeks successfully drive the Trojans off and rescue Achilles’ body, bringing it back to the Greek camp. Ajax is the first to eulogize Achilles, then Phoinix, Agamemnon, Briseis, and Thetis, Achilles' mother. Calliope tells Thetis that ...
Front matter of Boswell's copy of the 1732 edition of the Heroides, edited by Peter Burmann. Note the title Heroides sive Epistolae, The Heroides or the Letters.. The Heroides (The Heroines), [1] or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines), is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines ...
Greek poet Quintus Smyrnaeus, in his epic poem Posthomerica, has Phoenix welcome Achilles's son Neoptolemus to Troy, and give a speech telling Neoptolemus about his father. [65] According to the c. 4th-century AD Dictys Cretensis , Achilles, Ajax, and Phoenix were the commanders of the Greek's Trojan War fleet.