Briseis

Etymology
Borrowing from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A legendary figure who features in the Iliad; a princess granted as concubine to Achilles after the sacking of her city, Lyrnessus, before the beginning of the story.
 * 2) * 1993 [Random House (Knopf)], (translator),, The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony, 1994, Random House (Vintage), page 90,
 * And the Iliad was founded on a play of words, the substitution of a couple of letters in a name. Briseis, Chryseis. The bone of contention that triggers the poem is Briseis kallipárēos, Briseis “of the lovely cheeks”: Agamemnon wants her exchanged with, or substituted for, Chryseis kallipárēos, Chryseis “of the lovely cheeks." In Greek only two letters separate the two girls.
 * 1)  The minor planet.
 * 1)  The minor planet.
 * 1)  The minor planet.

Usage notes

 * Briseis is a patronymic. Her given name, according to other poets, is Hippodameia (Ἱπποδάμεια).
 * In his , Ovid presents a letter from Briseis to Achilles.
 * In 's  (The Romance of Troy) and later mediaeval romances, the name is rendered as ; moreover, her father is identified as Calchas (a change from the etymologically linked Briseus of the Iliad) and she is in love with Troilus (and then Diomedes).
 * Briseis/Briseida was later conflated with Chryseis; under variations of that name the character continued to evolve, eventually becoming William Shakespeare's Cressida.
 * (According to the Iliad, Chriseis had been Agamemnon's war prize; when forced to return her, he had demanded Briseis in recompense, offending Achilles.)

Translations

 * French: Briséis
 * Italian: Briseide
 * Polish:
 * Russian: Брисеида