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 ...

Him answered Agamemnon, king of men : “ Desert, then, if thou wilt; I ask thee not To stay for me ; there will be others left To do me honor yet, and best of all, The all-providing Jove is with ...

Oh, the mortals are restless! Achilles the Greek is furious because his boss, Agamemnon, has made grave mistakes in war and women. He becomes more crazed when he learns that his Trojan enemy, Hector, ...

Be sure to make use of the conflict to send Achilles into a blistering rage and buff your armies ... Hector guide, Paris guide, Agamemnon guide, Aeneas guide, Menelaus guide, and Odysseus guide.

So here we stand at the end, the Trojans have pushed back the Acheans. Achilles is nowhere to be seen and Agamemnon tries to find some way to convince him to join the battle. Zeus, tired of the ...

Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. The illustration is by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from an 1842 book ...

T o say that The Song of Achilles is simply a retelling of Homer’s Iliad from a different perspective would be to overlook the depth of emotion that Madeline Miller spent 10 years infusing into ...