Book One of the poem opens nine years after the start of the Trojan War. The poem goes on to speak of the Achaean soldiers that caught two Trojan maidens, Chrysei and Briseis, the two maidens that would later be the destruction of a country. The two girls are then given out as rewards of battle, Chrysei?s to the king of Achaens, Agamemnon and Briseis is awarded to Achilles the great warrior. The two girls? families are devostated and Chryseis? father, Chryses, priest of Apollo, begs Agamemnon to return his daughter. Sons of Atreus and you other strong-greaved Achains, to you ma

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