[gleeaikin]

Thanks again for a fat list of links. One quibble, when I see Irish warlord, Mongol conquerors in the same sentence of great lover and the like, my immediate thought is horribly successful criminal rapist, or kidnapper and exploiter of many concubines. Men need to stop using such glorious labels to describe these criminals and killers. What sensible woman would say NO to one of these monsters? Obviously they did not, or there would not be so many descendents. With so many even today with these bloodlines, our world’s many wars are not surprising.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Greeks of Homer's time saw nothing wrong with enslaving women and making them the concubines of their captors. The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles in the Iliad is over one such captive woman.