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Briseis’s husband

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Canonical name
Briseis’s husband
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None
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Character
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Individual
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Claims

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·Remembered

Briseis remembers seeing the husband chosen by her parents cut down before their city.

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“I saw him to whom my father and mother married me, cut down before our city”

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·Remembered
“Achilles slew my husband”

Passage preview

Book 19 · Passage 21

Briseis, fair as Venus, when she saw the mangled body of Patroclus, flung herself upon it and cried aloud, tearing her breast, her neck, and her lovely face with both her hands. Beautiful as a goddess she wept and said, ‘Patroclus, dearest friend, when I went hence I left you living; I return, O prince, to find you dead; thus do fresh sorrows multiply upon me one after the other. I saw him to whom my father and mother married me, cut down before our city, and my three own dear brothers perished with him on the selfsame day; but you, Patroclus, even when Achilles slew my husband and sacked the city of noble Mynes, told me that I was not to weep, for you said you would make Achilles marry me, and take me back with him to Phthia, we should have a wedding feast among the Myrmidons. You were always kind to me and I shall never cease to grieve for you.’