Achilles is on the verge of attacking Agamemnon when the goddess Athena appears behind him “and grabbed him by his chestnut hair. She was/invisible to everyone but him.” Athena prevents ...

Agamemnon appeases the god by agreeing to return Chryseis to her father, but in return he demands that Prince Achilles, the most fearsome warrior in the Greek army, relinquish his own sex slave ...

Agamemnon appeases the god by agreeing to return Chryseis to her father, but in return he demands that Prince Achilles, the most fearsome warrior in the Greek army, relinquish his own sex slave ...

A modern spin on Agamemnon, Achilles and Iphigeneia. By Reviewed by Christine Thomas March 23, 2003. The Songs of the Kings. By Barry Unsworth. NAN A. TALESE/DOUBLEDAY; 338 Pages; $26.

Women are fungible. In the Iliad, Agamemnon makes her utility explicit.He tells Achilles: "I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than ...

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Achilles and Patroclus are only 16 years old when they sail off with the allied troops of the Greek kingdoms, commanded by King Agamemnon, to try to reclaim beautiful Helen, wife of Agamemnon’s ...