Briseus

A son of Ardys and king of the Leleges at Pedasus, or a priest at Lyrnessus (Asia Minor). When the Greeks invaded his city, his daughter Hippodamia — better known as Briseis — was taken as a war-prize by Achilles.

Briseus is said to have hanged himself when he lost his daughter.1

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References

Notes

  1. Dictys Cretensis, ii, 17.

Sources

  • Homer. Iliad i, 392; ii, 689.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.