However, when reading the Iliad, there is a shock factor: some men were not as receptive to women's influences as Enkidu. Enkidu cherished Shamhat, but Agamemnon treated Chryseis and Briseis as mere objects of pleasure. Chryses was influenced by the capture of Chyseis, his daughter, to appeal to Apollo, the god of health, to place a deadly plague on the Greeks. This caused Achilles to confront Agamemnon who reluctantly declared, "Yet I will return her, if that is best." / I don't want to see the army destroyed like this. / But I want another prize ready for me right away. / I will not be the only Greek without a price” (1.124-127). Unfortunately, the prize Agamemnon ended up winning was Briseis, and she originally belonged to Achilles. Because Agamemnon took Briseis, Achilles was angry and went to Thetis, his sea nymph mother, saying, "And the heralds have taken away my daughter, Briseis, / Whom the army had given me." / Now you must help me, if you can” (1.406-408). Thetis went to speak with Zeus and Achilles did not fight in the Trojan War for a while. While Shamhat, in Gilgamesh, influenced Enkidu to fight and be a better man, Chryseis' influence caused Agamemnon to make a stupid decision, which prompted him to take on Briseis, and the taking of Briseis induced Achilles to withdraw from