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This 4 page paper compares two scenes in "The Iliad" in which one character begs for something from another. In this case we compare the first scene of the poem and Chryses' plea for his daughter's return to the last scene in the work, where Priam begs for his son's body. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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compares two such scenes, one early in the poem, when Chryses, the priest of Apollo, begs for Agamemnon to return his daughter; the second late in the story, when Priam
begs for his sons body. Discussion The first scene occurs at the very beginning of Book One, and in effect gets the whole thing underway. Agamemnon has captured a girl,
Chryseis, the daughter of the priest Chryses, and he intends to keep her. He says in fact that "I rank her higher / than Clytemnestra, my wedded wife" (1.132-133). Despite
the fact that he is married, and he is taking the girl to make a slave of her, he is clearly besotted with her and refuses to give her up.
Her father, who is a priest of Apollo, begs Agamemnon to release her, and even offers him gifts as ransom, but Agamemnon still refuses to let her go. The
two characters involved her, Chryses and Agamemnon are very different in stature. Chryses is a priest and Agamemnon is a king, so they are unequal in rank. But in The
Iliad, the gods are a real, tangible presence and we would think that Agamemnon would know better than to anger them. Agamemnon says that he will give her up if
its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries to reason with him and they quarrel,
and Agamemnon says hell take Achilles girl, Briseis instead. This particular scene is almost comical, with the women in question being more or less passed around from one man
to the next, not because the men value them but because theyre playing one-upmanship. At the end of the confrontation, Briseis is taken from Achilles, who reacts by sitting down
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