Briséis
See also: Hippodamie
In the Greek Mythology, Briséis (in Greek old Βρισηΐς / Brisêís ), is a young person Troyenne, originating in the town of Lyrnessos, removed during the Trojan War by Achille, after having killed his/her three brothers and her husband, the king Mynès of Lyrnessos.
Its true name is Hippodamie ( Ἱπποδάμεια / Hippodámeia ) according to Dictys of Crete (2,17), “Briséis” being only one patronym meaning “girl of Briséos”.
Myth
After a oracle forced Agamemnon to give up a woman whom it had captured, Chryséis, this last sends its two Héraut S Thaltybios and Éryrates, to seek Briséis in compensation.
Estimating itself despoiled, Achille enters a great anger and then refuses to fight at the side of the Greek armies ordered by Agamemnon. He asks Zeus, via his mother Thétis, to grant the victory to Troyens until the Greeks beg it to turn over to the combat. This disastrous anger causes many the most important events of the Trojan War, including the death of Patrocle, lover of Achilles. It is this anger of Achilles who constitutes the subject of Iliade .
In Iliade , Briséis is the prisoner of Achilles, that the Greek army offered to him like reward. He likes it and compares their relation with that of a man and his wife, and does not support the fact that Agamemnon sleeps with her. When the quarrel finishes, this last swears to him that it slept forever with Briséis.
Source
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(IX, 334-343; XIX, 261-263).
See too
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