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seven Lesbian workwomen

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Canonical name
seven Lesbian workwomen
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Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
A fixed group offered twice and later referred to as the seven best; retained as a tracked collective rather than splitting its unnamed members.

Aliases

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women skilled in useful arts

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Location presence

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·Direct

The seven women skilled in useful arts, included among the presents, are taken to Achilles’s ship and placed among his tents.

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The Myrmidons attended to the presents and took them away to the ship of Achilles. They placed them in his tents, while the stable-men drove the horses in among the others.

Claims

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·Reported

Agamemnon offers seven Lesbian workwomen and calls them surpassingly beautiful.

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seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians, whom I chose for myself when he took Lesbos—all of surpassing beauty
·Reported

Ulysses repeats the offer of seven surpassingly beautiful Lesbian workwomen.

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seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians, whom he chose for himself, when you took Lesbos—all of surpassing beauty
·Direct

The seven women skilled in useful arts are brought from Agamemnon’s tent together with Briseis.

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the women skilled in useful arts, seven in number, with Briseis, which made eight
·Direct

The women join Briseis’s lament as if mourning Patroclus, while each actually weeps for her own sorrows.

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the women joined in her lament-making as though their tears were for Patroclus, but in truth each was weeping for her own sorrows

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·Hypothetical
seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians
·Reported
seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians
·Direct
the women skilled in useful arts, seven in number, with Briseis

Passage preview

Book 9 · Passage 9

And King Agamemnon answered, ‘Sir, you have reproved my folly justly. I was wrong. I own it. One whom heaven befriends is in himself a host, and Jove has shown that he befriends this man by destroying much people of the Achaeans. I was blinded with passion and yielded to my worser mind; therefore I will make amends, and will give him great gifts by way of atonement. I will tell them in the presence of you all. I will give him seven tripods that have never yet been on the fire, and ten talents of gold. I will give him twenty iron cauldrons and twelve strong horses that have won races and carried off prizes. Rich, indeed, both in land and gold is he that has as many prizes as my horses have won me. I will give him seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians, whom I chose for myself when he took Lesbos—all of surpassing beauty. I will give him these, and with them her whom I erewhile took from him, the daughter of Briseus; and I swear a great oath that I never went up into her couch, nor have been with her after the manner of men and women.