Chryses

Family: Chryse · Role: priest of Apollo · First appears: BOOK I

Life events

Apollo sends a pestilence against the Achaeans after Agamemnon dishonors Chryses.(BOOK I)
- With: Apollo
- “Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.”
Agamemnon refuses Chryses’s ransom and keeps Chryseis in his house.(BOOK I · 📍 Argos)
- With: Agamemnon Chryseis
- “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.”
Ulysses returns Chryseis to Chryses, and Apollo hears the prayer to end the pestilence.(BOOK I · 📍 Chryse)
- With: Chryseis 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.”

child: Chryseis “Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter”
with Apollo (interaction) “the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant’s wreath”
with Apollo (Chryses is Apollo's priest.) “because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest.”
with Agamemnon (interaction) “not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.”

Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.