person
Chryses
also: Χρύσης
Priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis was taken captive by Agamemnon; his prayer for vengeance brings the plague that opens the poem, and his prayer of thanks ends it once she is returned.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §1.1 Chryses
A priest of Apollo at Chryse whose daughter Chryseis is seized by the Achaeans; Agamemnon's refusal to accept his ransom and return her prompts his prayer for vengeance, opening the poem's plague and the quarrel that follows.