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Briseus

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Canonical name
Briseus
Disambiguator
None
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Character
Scope
Individual
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Claims

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·Remembered

Briseis remembers that her father helped arrange her marriage to the husband she later saw cut down before their city.

See evidence text
I saw him to whom my father and mother married me, cut down before our city

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Reported
the daughter of Briseus
·Remembered
my father and mother married me

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 34

‘On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. So he went back in anger, and Apollo, who loved him dearly, heard his prayer. Then the god sent a deadly dart upon the Argives, and the people died thick on one another, for the arrows went everywhither among the wide host of the Achaeans. At last a seer in the fulness of his knowledge declared to us the oracles of Apollo, and I was myself first to say that we should appease him. Whereon the son of Atreus rose in anger, and threatened that which he has since done. The Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship to Chryse, and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Briseus, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself.