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The siege of Troy in the following years is not mentioned in detail in the legend. The Greeks stationed in front of the city of Troy did not relax.Residents in the city seldom attack because they recharge their batteries.As a result, the Greeks organized their forces to attack the area near Troy.Achilles led the fleet to attack twelve cities by sea and eleven cities by land.In the war against Mysia, he hijacked the beautiful daughter Chryseis of the priest Chryses.When he captured Lyrnaxos, he captured the palace, forcing the king and priest Bryces to commit suicide.The king's daughter Brisaeus, also known as Brodamia, was his spoil, brought back by him, and became his favored slave.Achilles also led troops to attack the island of Lesbos and the city of Thebes at the foot of Prakos in Sierra.Eetion, king of Thebes, was in-law of Priam, and his daughter Andromache was married to the famous hero of Troy, Hector.

When Achilles stormed the palace, he killed Eetion and his seven sons.Eetion was tall and majestic, and the young Achilles was terrified in front of his corpse, not daring to take off the dead man's weapon as a trophy.So he had the king's body cremated in shining armor, and had him buried in a great grave, surrounded by tall and lush elms.The wife of King Ethion, the mother of Andromache, was taken away by him as a slave.He later released her back to China after receiving a large ransom.After returning home, she sat in front of the spinning wheel and spun yarn, but was shot by the arrow of the goddess Artemis and died.

The king's steed, Pedasus, was also taken by Achilles. This horse was strong and powerful, and could run as fast as his god horse.He also took from the king's arsenal many valuable spoils, among them a gigantic discus whose iron would have sufficed him for five years if made into a peasant's implement. Besides Achilles, another brave hero among the Greeks was Telamon's son Ajax.He is famous for plundering cities.He led the warships all the way to the Thrace peninsula.Here is the palace of King Polinestor.King Priam of Troy sent his beloved youngest son Polydorus here to save him from the disaster of war.In return for the raising of his son by the king of Thrace, Priam gave the king a lot of gold and jewels.But the king of Thracian was a man of dishonesty.When Ajax came to the city, he used these gold jewels and Polydorus to ask Ajax for peace.He not only betrayed his friendship with King Priam, but also distributed the money and grain he received to raise Polydorus to the Greek soldiers.

Ajax did not immediately sail back to Greece with the spoils, but set out for the coast of Phlicia.He violently attacked the kingdom of Teltras, slaying the king in battle and taking his daughter Tecmesa.She is a noble and beautiful woman.Ajax admired her beauty and temperament, so he kept her by his side, treating her like a wife.He would have officially taken her as his wife if it had not been for the custom of the Greeks not to allow marriage with a savage. The son of Achilles and Telamon came back with a rewarding experience from the battle.They led the warships to the military camp outside Troy at the same time.The Greeks welcomed them warmly, surrounded the two heroes, and crowned their heads with wreaths of olive branches as a reward for their victory.The heroes then meet to discuss how to distribute the spoils they bring back.The Greeks regarded the spoils as their property.Now the captive women were thrust before them, their beauty admirable.Achilles was rightfully assigned the daughter of Bryses; Ajax also had the right to Tecmesa, daughter of King Therthras.Achilles was also allowed to keep Brisaeus' maid Diomede, because she did not want to leave the king's daughter who grew up with her, so she knelt down in front of Achilles, with her mouth in her mouth. Pleading with tears not to let her leave her mistress, she was finally granted permission.Chryseis, the daughter of the priest Chryses, was given to Agamemnon as a token of respect for his royal power.Achilles naturally agreed to part with each other.Other spoils, whether female captives or looted property, were divided equally among the soldiers.Due to the proposal of Odysseus and Diomedes, the property of King Polynestor unloaded from Ajax's ship belonged to Ajax, but Agamemnon naturally also received a large amount of gold and silver from it .