Briseis
| In Greek mythology, a captive of Achilles. Agamemnon stole her from him, thus starting the feud which is the central theme of the Iliad. |
| She became the unfaithful heroine of several poems, the name being changed in Boccaccio to Griselda, in Chaucer to Criseyde, and in Shakespeare to Cressida. |
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