Briseis Quotes

#1. 'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.

David Benioff

#2. And thus Bacchus turned Phyllis into his slave. She had become the lovely slave girl, Briseis, whom Achilles took as a war prize & whom Achilles had to yield to Agamemnon, his boss. Just as Phyllis was the prize that Eros found & whom Eros had to yield to Bacchus,his boss.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

#3. This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.

Madeline Miller

#4. Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

Mary Renault

#5. All the on-lookers were bewildered.The lovely slave girl, Briseis, had won the Battle of the Sexes with a kiss.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

#6. I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

James Frey

#7. I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.

Grimes

#8. And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.

Lauren DeStefano

#9. I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

John Dykstra

#10. Graham runs a hand through his hair and takes a deep breath. Finally, with a determined scowl, he crosses the room. His hands grip my shoulders. "We are not," his voice is a gentle tremor, "breaking up

Tammara Webber

#11. His mother was a good and fearful Lutheran, who gave away both time and money, visiting hospitals for the poor, organising bazaars and clothing collections. But she ate from Meissen porcelain with silver spoons. There were hideous inconsistencies.

A.S. Byatt

#12. The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Ernest Bramah

#13. I was just wondering how long we were going to pretend like we annoyed each other before we started sleeping together.

Beck Anderson

#14. In 1984, when 'Nightmare on Elm Street' came out, not only was I twelve and couldn't get into an R movie, but I lived twenty miles from a theater. So my first experience of it was on VHS.

Stephen Graham Jones

#15. They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment

Jane Urquhart

#16. Everyone always told me I was fated to be in front of the camera.

Jesse Bradford