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Brises (also Briseus ) is in Greek mythology a son of the Legian king Ardys , brother of Chryses and father of Hippodameia . In the Trojan War , she is kidnapped by the Greeks as a prisoner of war and from then on serves Achilles as a pleasure slave. Brises is also described as the priest of Apollo in the city of Lyrnessos in Asia Minor . After the destruction of his house and the city of Lyrnessos by the Greeks during the Trojan War, he hanged himself.

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1. ↑ ^{a b} cf. on this: Gerhard Fink , Who's who in the ancient mythology , p. 54, dtv ; Munich (2002).