Everything about Chryses totally explained
In
Greek mythology,
Chryses (
English: /'krai si:z/
Greek: Χρύσης,
Khrýsēs) was a priest of
Apollo at Chryse, near the city of
Troy. He and Briseus (father of
Briseis) were said to be sons of a man named Ardys, otherwise unknown. During the
Trojan War (prior to the actions described in
Homer's
Iliad),
Agamemnon took his daughter
Chryseis (Astynome) as a war prize and when Chryses attempted to ransom her, refused to let her free. An
oracle of Apollo then sent a plague sweeping through the Greek armies, and Agamemnon was forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it. The significance of
Agamemnon's actions lies not in the fact that he kidnapped
Chryseis (such abductions were commonplace in the Greek world) but in the fact that he refused to release her upon her father's request.
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