Briseis

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.9 Briseis

  The captive woman taken from Achilles, cause of his wrath in the Iliad.

• The Art of Love §2.20 Lyrnessian

  Briseis, the captive taken from Lyrnessus, whose loss is the quarrel of the Iliad.

• The Art of Love §2.31 Briseis

  Achilles' captive from Lyrnessus, who let herself be touched by the very hands that dealt Trojan slaughter.

• The Heroides §3 Briseis

  A captive woman of Lyrnesus awarded to Achilles as a war-prize; her seizure by Agamemnon sparked the wrath that drives the Iliad. The speaker of this letter.

• The Heroides §20 Briseis

  The captive woman awarded to Achilles, who 'followed her victor.'

• The Cure for Love §24 Briseïs

  Achilles's captive war-bride, seized by Agamemnon — the affront that fuels the Iliad's wrath.

• Sorrows §2.1 Briseis

  The captive girl over whom Achilles and Agamemnon quarreled in the Iliad — 'the flame' that drives the epic.

• Sorrows §4.1 Lyrnesian girl

  Briseis of Lyrnesus, taken from Achilles, whose loss he soothed on the lyre; Ovid's parallel for song as solace in grief.