Chryseis

Family: Chryse · Role: daughter of Chryses · First appears: BOOK I

Life events

• Agamemnon refuses Chryses’s ransom and keeps Chryseis in his house.(BOOK I · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Agamemnon Chryses
  • “I will not free her. She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you.”
• Agamemnon sends Chryseis and sacrificial offerings to Chryse under Ulysses’s command.(BOOK I · 📍 Chryse)
  • With: Agamemnon Ulysses
  • “Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose a crew of twenty oarsmen. He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god. And Ulysses went as captain.”
• Ulysses returns Chryseis to Chryses, and Apollo hears the prayer to end the pestilence.(BOOK I · 📍 Chryse)
  • With: Chryses Ulysses Apollo
  • “So saying he gave the girl over to her father, who received her gladly, and they ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god.”

BOOK I

• parent: Chryses “Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter”
• with Agamemnon (interaction) “I will not free her. She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home”

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