Book One

How could they do that! The Greeks! Oh my good Apollo! For them to snatch two helpless girls away from their families. I don't even want to know what they're doing to them, those poor girls, Chryseis and Briseis. I'm not the least bit surprised that Chryses offers a ransom for his daughter back. I mean of all the people there, they had to capture the priest's daughter! Thank you, great

Apollo for sending down a plague to the Greek people whom captured them. Only then was Chryseis at least was able to go home. That veil human, Agamemnon though, though. He demanded that he have Briseis because, well, I guess how else is he supposed to get a girl to bed with him if he does not force her under the sheets. But this made Achilles mad; mighty, powerful Achilles, who will no doubt take up a grudge against Agamemnon, for Briseis was his prize after the siege on her city. Though, great Apollo lifts the plague from the Greeks camp, Achilles refuses battle since this little incident.

Quarrel between Chryseis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad 

Have we really come to this? Having women as prizes? I have a baby boy, and as sad as it makes my voice heard, I am lucky, for he will not have to grow up as the prize. Though I would rather him not grow up to be the warrior who would take "the prize" of women. Maybe I can make him so he does not follow in his fathers footsteps of being the warrior. Though, honorable Hector is more of my defender than my warrior. Could the wrath that Achilles feels from this dishonorable deed come up further into the history of Greek? I do not see how this could effect my own city of Troy, but I can only pray to Apollo that no harm will come to home and family.







Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: The University of
     Chicago Press, 2011. Print. This book was the base of which I got the
     majority of the information in my characters blog post.