An interesting retelling of The Iliad, told from the point of view of Briseis, a princess captured by the Greeks and given to Achilles as a sex slave. Things go badly for the Greeks at Troy after Agamemnon takes Briseis off Achilles to have himself, and Achilles sulks and refuses to fight.

It shows both the majesty of kings, and the often primitive nature of the world of three thousand years ago, with a sprinkling of the supernatural.