briseis
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(hippOdaemia) Greek The daughter of
a Trojan priest, Briseus. A captive and lover of the
Greek hero Achilles, she was stolen from him by
Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, by an
act of trickery. Furious, Achilles withdrew his troops
from the battle (see Trojan War), causing the Greeks
to lose ground to the Trojans. These acts marked the
beginning of Homer's iliAd, his great epic about the
Trojan War.