About the book: 2018 / Everyone knows the legend of the Trojan War, when a huge army of Greeks besieged Troy in order to recapture Queen Helen, who had been kidnapped by them, from the treacherous strangers - and at the same time profit from countless wealth stored outside the city walls. Many great heroes took part in the war, the main of whom was Achilles - shining, incomparable, godlike. At the end of the war, he fell victim to betrayal and deceit, but immortalized his name for centuries... But was everything really so smooth? The Trojan princess Briseis, who was captured by Achilles during one of the Greek raids and became his slave and concubine, knew this best of all. And here is her story - about hatred, horror, hopelessness, deprivation, humility... and love.*** For many years the ancient city of Troy managed to hold back the siege of the powerful Greek army, which began a bloody war due to the abduction of the beautiful Spartan princess Helen by the Trojans. The Greeks, led by their greatest warrior Achilles, plundered the temple of Apollo and killed many glorious Trojan warriors, including the husband and brothers of Princess Briseis. Captured, she becomes Achilles' concubine and a bone of contention between him and the leader of the Greek army, the greedy king Agamemnon. Deprived of freedom and honor, like many other Trojan women whose names were mercilessly erased by history, Briseis tries to survive in the nightmarish conditions of war and with awaits its outcome with horror. When Agamemnon demands the girl as a trophy, an insulted Achilles refuses to fight for the Greeks, leaving the Trojans with a slim chance of victory. Briseis witnesses a confrontation between two powerful men, which can decide not only her own fate and the fate of her native Troy, but also rewrite the history of the ancient world as a whole..