The Fall of Troy

Briseis

Also known as: hero Achilles' couchmate · Family: The Greeks · Role: captive · First appears: Book III · Part 4

Life events

  • Briseis laid her shorn tresses on Achilles' corpse as her final gift.(Book III · Part 5)
    • With: Achilles
    • “Briseis laid Her own shorn tresses on the corpse, her gift, Her last, unto her lord.”

Book III · Part 4

  • with Achilles (interaction) “Thou tookest from me every bondmaid's task And like a wife didst hold me.”

Book III · Part 5

  • with Achilles (interaction) “Briseis laid Her own shorn tresses on the corpse, her gift, Her last, unto her lord.”

Also listed in The Greeks — Minor Figures

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