What does agamemnon do to offend Achilles?

Answer 1

Agamemnon takes Achilles' war prize, Briseis, ater Agamemnon was forced to give back his own prize, Chryseis.

He was forced to return Chryseis because of a plague that Apollo sent against the Greeks for refusing to allow Chryseis to be ransomed to her father.

Achilles wants to kill Agamemnon because he is a pompous, power-hungry man who believes that no one except for him should get the spoils of war. Achilles' "Prize" (A woman whom was captured in the first battle in Troy) was taken from him by Agamemnon and Agamemnon was using her for his own pleasure and then threw her to the Men like a piece of meat to the bulldogs. After that, Achilles declares that he will kill him.

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Also it is about Achilles' pride as a warrior and his love for Briseis that makes him threaten Agamemnon to leave the war and with Agamemnons actions and brutish language (in order to gain the power his has back) he dismisses Achilles.

Agamemnon "But here is a threat: in the same way as Phoesbus Apollo is robbing me of Chryseis, whom I propose to send off in my ship with my crew, I will come in person to your hut and take away fair-cheeked Brieseis, your prize, Achilles, to let you know how far I am your superior and to teach others to shrink from claiming parity with me and playing the equal to my face." (Book 1 lines 183-189)

Achilles does not actually threaten to kill Agamemnon Athene comes down from Olympus and stops him.

Answer 2

Agamemnon loses his concubine and demands another of equal beauty. The only captured woman who was as beautiful as Agamemnon's was Briseis who was owned by Achilles. Achilles is angry and offended when Agamemnon takes Briseis away from him.

Answer 3

During the fighting at Troy, Achilles had captured a princess of Lyrnessus - Briseis. In the normal way of the fighting of those times, Briseis became Achilles concubine (sex slave). Other soldiers were jealous of Achilles, Briseis was fabulously beautiful.

But Agamemnon (commander in chief of the Greek forces at Troy) also had a special concubine - Chryseis. But Chryseis father (Chryses) was a senior priest of Apollo, and Chryses prayed to Apollo to bring his daughter back home to him.

Apollo - God of Plague - sent a vicious plague into the Greek army, and the Greek witch-doctors announced that the plague would continue until Chryseis was returned.

Agamemnon was forced to return Chryseis to Troy, but in order to save face he seized Briseis from Achilles (as commander in chief, Agamemnon was entitled to allocate prisoners of war as he saw fit).

Achilles was outraged that his favourite sex-slave had been taken from him. He at first considered abandoning the Greek army, but eventually decided just to stop fighting on the Greek side.

This is the point where the Iliad begins.

Answer 4

He sacrificed his daughter to her, Iphigenia.