Search results
His wife or his bride
- When Odysseus, Ajax, and Phoenix visit Achilles to negotiate her return in book 9, Achilles refers to Briseis as his wife or his bride. He professes to have loved her as much as any man loves his wife, at one point using Menelaus and Helen to complain about the injustice of his "wife" being taken from him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briseis
People also ask
Why does Achilles refer to Briseis as his wife?
Why did Achilles give Briseis a prize in the Iliad?
Why did Achilles kill Briseis?
Why does Briseis mourn in Achilles & Athena?
When Odysseus, Ajax, and Phoenix visit Achilles to negotiate her return in book 9, Achilles refers to Briseis as his wife or his bride. He professes to have loved her as much as any man loves his wife, at one point using Menelaus and Helen to complain about the injustice of his "wife" being taken from him. [ 10 ]
Briseis was a female character who appeared in the tales of Greek mythology during the Trojan War. Briseis would become a concubine of the hero Achilles, but she was also the reason, through no fault of her own, why Achilles and Agamemnon argued, almost resulting in the Achaeans losing the war.
Achilles, one of the Achaeans’ most valuable warriors, claims Briseis. Chryseis’s father, a man named Chryses who serves as a priest of the god Apollo, begs Agamemnon to return his daughter and offers to pay an enormous ransom. When Agamemnon refuses, Chryses prays to Apollo for help.
- Summary: Book 19
- Summary: Book 20
- Analysis: Books 19 & 20
Thetis presents Achilles with the armor that Hephaestus has forged for him. She promises to look after Patroclus’s body and keep it from rotting while Achilles goes to battle. Achilles walks along the shore, calling his men to an assembly. At the meeting, Agamemnonand Achilles reconcile with each other, and Agamemnon gives Achilles the gifts that h...
While the Achaeans and Trojans prepare for battle, Zeus summons the gods to Mount Olympus. He knows that if Achilles enters the battlefield unchecked, he will decimate the Trojans and maybe even bring the city down before its fated time. Accordingly, he thus removes his previous injunction against divine interference in the battle, and the gods str...
Although Achilles has reconciled with Agamemnon, his other actions in Books 19 and 20 indicate that he has made little progress as a character. He still demonstrates a tendency toward the thoughtless rage that has brought so many Achaeans to their deaths. He remains so intent on vengeance, for example, that he initially intends for the men to go in...
Briseis is a Trojan citizen captured during the Greek army’s early raids on Troy. At Patroclus ’s urging, Achilles claims her as a war spoil, but the two give her free reign in the Phthian camp.
Mar 2, 2019 · Briseis is portrayed as a war prize given to Achilles, taken by Agamemnon, and returned to Achilles. Briseis is a virgin priestess of Apollo. The legends say slightly different things about Briseis. In the legends, Briseis was the wife of King Mynes of Lyrnessus, an ally of Troy.
Briseis (Classical Greek: Βρισηίς), also known as Briseide or Briseida, was, in Greek mythology, a Trojan woman, a widow, from the city of Lirnesso. She was kidnapped during the Trojan War by Achilles, after the latter killed her three brothers and her husband, King Mines.
