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Abduction of Briseis, a papyrus drawing, possibly of Ancient Egyptian origin, depicting Briseis being abducted by Agamemnon's heralds, Talthybius and Eurybates; The Fury of Achilles, 1962 film directed by Marino Girolami, portrayed by Gloria Milland; Daughter of Troy, a 1998 novel by Dave Duncan; The Song of Troy, a 1998 novel by Colleen McCullough
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.
Troy is a 2004 epic historical war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by David Benioff.Produced by units in Malta, Mexico and Britain's Shepperton Studios, the film features an ensemble cast led by Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Sean Bean, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson, Rose Byrne, Saffron Burrows and Orlando Bloom.
The story of Pisidice, and particularly the variation of the story that takes place in Asia Minor, seems to be part of an old Aeolic epic tradition about Achilles raiding Anatolian and Aegean cities, a tradition whose traces can be seen as early as the epic poems Iliad and the lost Cypria.
The story is told chiefly by Briseis in the first person, with interjections giving Achilles's internal state of mind. However, as the title suggests, Briseis's narrative is almost entirely internal; except in flashbacks to times before her capture, she speaks out loud hardly at all and with only a few handfuls of words.
Full disclosure: this film sparked some intense debate on the actors feeling rlly uncomfortable shooting the scene. ... Priestess Briseis (Rose Byrne) attempts to kill Achilles (Pitt), and then ...
Eurybates, a herald who was sent, along with Talthybius, by Agamemnon to retrieve Briseis from Achilles' camp in Iliad, I, but he might be a different person from Odysseus's herald mentioned in Iliad, 2 ("Eurybates of Ithaca"), and in the Odyssey. [2] Eurybates on a Roman mosaic with the Removal of Briseis, 2nd century
Achilles, oder Das zerstörte Troja ("Achilles, or Troy Destroyed", Bonn 1885) is an oratorio by the German composer Max Bruch. Achilles auf Skyros (Stuttgart 1926) is a ballet by the Austrian-British composer and musicologist Egon Wellesz. Achilles' Wrath is a concert piece by Sean O'Loughlin. [99]