Briseis

Role: woman · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 24

Life events

• Agamemnon swore over a boar that Briseis was still a maid, after which the boar was thrown into the sea.(Book 5 · Chapter 24)
  • With: Zeus Agamemnon
  • “for the boar on whose entrails Agamemnon swore solemnly that Briseis was a maid as far as he was concerned, was thrown into the sea by the herald.”

Book 5 · Chapter 24

• employer: Agamemnon (Briseis is described as Agamemnon's maid.) “As Homer’s evidence very plainly shews, for the boar on whose entrails Agamemnon swore solemnly that Briseis was a maid as far as he was concerned, was thrown into the sea by the herald.”

Book 10 · Chapter 25

• admired: Helen “There too stands Briseis, and Diomede near her, and Iphis in front of them both, they all appear to be gazing at Helen’s beauty.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.