Chrysès
In the Greek Mythology, Chrysès (in Greek old Χρύσης / Khrúsês ) is a Prêtre of Apollon in the town of Chrysé in Troade.
It appears in song I of Iliade : after his/her daughter Chryséis was removed at the time of the catch of Lyrnessos, it comes to claim it in the Greek camp. However Agamemnon, which received the young girl like starts from honor, refuses to return it and insults the priest (26-29):
“Station with you, old, if I still see you close to the naves creuses
Y to trail today or to come there another time!
Sceptre and ribbons would not serve any more anything. ”
(translation F. Mugler)
Chrysès thus calls upon the anger of Apollo on the Greek camp. The god sends the plague on the Achaens, and Agamemnon must fold. It charges Ulysses with leading the young girl, as well as a Hécatombe, until Chrysé. There, Ulysses returns it to his father. Chrysès requests then the god to draw aside the plague of the Greeks, and those proceed to the sacrifice.
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