Briseis
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Briseis, also known as Hippodameia, is a significant character in the Iliad. Her role as a status symbol is at the heart of the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon that initiates the plot of Homer'
Briseis smelling a flower, red-figure pottery, c. 520–510 BC
Achilles delivering Briseis to Agamemnon's heralds by Antonio Canova, circa 1790.
Abduction of Briseis, 4th century
Chryseis
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Chryseis is a Trojan woman in Homer's Iliad, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome. The 12th
Briseis
…Achaeans' collected spoils Achilles was given Briseis. According to Book 1 of the Iliad, when Agamemnon was compelled by Apollo to give up his own slave, Chryseis, he demanded Briseis as compensation. This prompted a quarrel with Achilles that culminated with Briseis' delivery to Agamemnon and Achilles's protracted…
Chryses tries to ransom Chryseis from Agamemnon on an Apulian red-figure volute-crater, c. 360 BC–350 BCE by the Athens Painter.
Chryseis returned to her father (1771) by Benjamin West