What does Achilles swear to do after Briseis is taken from him? Achilles makes this statement to his mother when she tells him that he can choose a long, happy life or go off to fight and make a name for himself that will last forever. He is indicating that he chooses fame over a long life.

What oath does Achilles swear to Agamemnon? Why does he withdraw from battle? 1) Achilles won’t fight anymore because of agamemnons greed and stubborness he swears the greeks will need him one day. 2) He is comparing the greeks to a tree trunk and branch that if he is cut off he won’t ever come back to help.

How does Achilles’s mother hide him ? How is he tricked out of hiding ? She sent him to the isle of Scyros, they dressed as a maiden. They tricked him into handling a sword.

According to Book 1 of the Iliad, when Agamemnon was compelled by Apollo to give up his own slave, Chryseis, he demanded Briseis as compensation. This prompted a quarrel with Achilles that culminated with Briseis’ delivery to Agamemnon and Achilles’ protracted withdrawal from battle.

Despite rumors of his homosexual tendencies, Achilles did have a child—a son, born from a brief affair during the Trojan War. However, after Achilles entered the Trojan War, Briseis, the daughter of the Trojan priest of Apollo named Chryses, was given to Achilles as a war prize.

Assuming he was between 18 and 25 then (young enough to be youthful, old enough to be a capable warrior), he was 28 to 35 when he was killed by the Hydra Arrows by Philoctetes, who then had to shoot them for his aged father.

prince Paris

Achilles is killed by an arrow, shot by the Trojan prince Paris. In most versions of the story, the god Apollo is said to have guided the arrow into his vulnerable spot, his heel. In one version of the myth Achilles is scaling the walls of Troy and about to sack the city when he is shot.

Philoctetes

In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy, Helen, Helena, (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη Helénē, pronounced [helénɛː]), also known as beautiful Helen, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.

Helen resembled the immortal goddesses in her appearance and was called the “most beautiful woman in the world” by goddess Aphrodite. The ancient Greek poet Homer depicts Helen in the Iliad as fair-faced and beautifully dressed. However, Helen described herself as “dog-eyed” (“kynopis” in ancient Greek).

She was married to Menelaus, king of Sparta. Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, fell in love with Helen and abducted her, taking her back to Troy. Helen returned safely to Sparta, where she lived happily with Menelaus for the rest of her life.

Before her marriage to Menelaus, Helen lived with Leda and Leda’s husband, King Tyndareus of Sparta. To prevent any violence against her future husband, the Greek warrior Odysseus made his countrymen swear to protect the man she agreed to wed. Helen chose Menelaus, who later became king of Sparta.

At first, Menelaus does not believe that she is the real Helen, since he has hidden the Helen he won in Troy in a cave. However, the woman he was shipwrecked with was in reality, only a mere phantom of the real Helen.

Menelaus

The enraged Hecuba tore out Polymestor’s eyes and murdered both of his sons. As Odysseus was trying to control her, she turned into a dog. Her tomb was placed on a rocky outcrop located on a narrow strip of water called the Hellespont between Greece and Turkey. Hecuba is found in the Iliad * and the Aeneid *.

What did Helen look like? Today’s movies and paintings make her a blonde, but ancient Greek paintings show her as a brunette. Homer merely tells us she was “white-armed, long robed, and richly tressed,” leaving the rest up to our imagination.

It is made clear in the Iliad that Helen’s beauty is more than just ordinary, mortal beauty; instead, her beauty is supernatural and otherworldly. The reason why Helen is so beautiful is because she is the daughter of Zeus himself and she is therefore partly divine.