<P> In the first book of the Iliad , she has been enslaved , as a war prize , by Agamemnon who admits she is finer than his own wife Clytemnestra and refuses to allow her father , a priest of Apollo , to ransom her . Apollo then sends a plague sweeping through the Greek armies , and Agamemnon is forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it , so Agamemnon sends Odysseus to return Chryseis to her father . Agamemnon compensates himself for this loss by taking Briseis from Achilles , an act that offends Achilles , who refuses to take further part in the Trojan War . A later Greek legend , preserved in Hyginus ' Fabulae , states that she had a son by Agamemnon . In medieval literature , Chryseis is developed into the character Cressida . </P>
<P> In the first book of the Iliad , she has been enslaved , as a war prize , by Agamemnon who admits she is finer than his own wife Clytemnestra and refuses to allow her father , a priest of Apollo , to ransom her . Apollo then sends a plague sweeping through the Greek armies , and Agamemnon is forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it , so Agamemnon sends Odysseus to return Chryseis to her father . Agamemnon compensates himself for this loss by taking Briseis from Achilles , an act that offends Achilles , who refuses to take further part in the Trojan War . A later Greek legend , preserved in Hyginus ' Fabulae , states that she had a son by Agamemnon . In medieval literature , Chryseis is developed into the character Cressida . </P>
who was forced to give agamemnon 's prize
who was forced to give agamemnon 's prize
Agamemnon
Agamemnon