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In Greek mythology, Chryseis (/ k r aɪ ˈ s iː ɪ s /, Ancient Greek: Χρυσηΐς, romanized: Khrusēís, pronounced [kʰryːsɛːís]) is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad , means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome ( Ἀστυνόμη ). [ 1 ]
In medieval romances, starting with the Roman de Troie, Briseis becomes Briseida [14] and is the daughter of Calchas. She loves and is loved by Troilus and then Diomedes . She is later confused with Chryseis and it is under variations of that name that the character is developed further, becoming Chaucer 's Criseyde, then Shakespeare 's Cressida .
Briseis, a woman captured in the sack of Lyrnessus, a small town in the territory of Troy, and awarded to Achilles as a prize. Agamemnon takes her from Achilles in Book 1 and Achilles withdraws from battle as a result. Chryseis, Chryses’ daughter, taken as a war prize by Agamemnon. Clymene, servant of Helen along with her mother Aethra.
Chryses attempting to ransom his daughter Chryseis from Agamemnon, Apulian red-figure crater by the Athens 1714 Painter, ca. 360 BC–350 BC, Louvre.. In Greek mythology, Chryses (/ ˈ k r aɪ s iː z /; Greek, Χρύσης Khrýsēs, meaning "golden") was a Trojan priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy.
Agamemnon consents, but then commands that Achilles' slave Briseis, the daughter of Briseus, be brought to him to replace Chryseis. Angry at the dishonour of having his plunder and glory taken away (and, as he says later, because he loves Briseis), [ 43 ] with the urging of his mother Thetis, Achilles refuses to fight or lead his troops ...
Eustathius of Thessalonica, a commentator on Homer, says Briseus and Chryses were brothers, as sons of Ardys (otherwise unknown), with Briseus dwelling in Pedasus, and Chryses residing in Chryse; both were towns in the Troad. [2] Pedasus was said by Homer to be Lelegian settlement, ruled by the Lelegian king Altes. Thus, Briseus may also have ...
The plot then becomes that of the Iliad, covering the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon over Chryseis, which results in Achilles yielding Briseis to Agamemnon, Achilles's subsequent refusal to join the fighting, then the deaths of Patroclus, Hector, and finally Achilles. Briseis has become pregnant with Achilles's child shortly before his ...
When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion, [6] Chryseis with her other sisters, except for one, [7] all laid with the hero in a night, [8] a week [9] or for 50 days [10] as what their father strongly desired it to be. [11] Chryseis bore Heracles a son, Onesippus. [12] Chryseis, also called Astynome, [13] a Trojan woman ...