Chryséis

In the Greek Mythology, Chryséis (in Greek old Χρυσηΐς / Khrusêîs ) is a Trojan young person , girl of Chrysès, which was priest of Apollon in the island of Chrysé, in Troade. “Chryséis”, its name apparent in Iliade , means “girl of Chrysès simply”; some late authors name it Astynomé ( Ἀστυνόμη / Astunnómê , “the protective one of the city”).

Myth

When the Greek ransacked the island and killed her husband, Épistrophos, they gave Chryséis in gift to Agamemnon. This one made his/her concubine, informant of it that he preferred it with his wife Clytemnestre, and refused the important ransom which Chrysès proposed to him. This last beseeched Apollon and the Greeks were struck Peste. At the end of nine days, Agamemnon agreed to return Chryséis on the condition of receiving in compensation Briséis, which had been offered to Achille. This incident is at the origin of the anger of Achilles, one of the main themes of Iliade .

A late Greek legend, reported by Hygin, tells that it have a son by Agamemnon.

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