... > Classical Mythology and Ancient History > the Greek heroic legends (I) > the tenth year of the Trojan war (part I); the wrath of Achilles: from the quarrel about Briseis to the death of Patroclus > the quarrel about Briseis (Iliad I) > Briseis is taken away from Achilles and led to Agamemnon by the heralds Talthybius and Eurybates; Achilles may be holding a lyre > Achilles withdraws from the war and complains to his mother Thetis