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Chryseis

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Canonical name
Chryseis
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
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Aliases

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daughter of Chryses

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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harbour at Chryse1 observation
·Direct

Chryseis left the ship after it entered the harbour at Chryse, establishing her presence there.

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“When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship’s hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooring-stones and made fast the hawsers. They then got out upon the sea-shore and landed the hecatomb for Apollo; Chryseis also left the ship”

Claims

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·Direct

Chryseis is Chryses’s daughter, whom he comes to free with a great ransom.

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“Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom”
·Hypothetical

Agamemnon declares that Chryseis will grow old in his Argos house, working at the loom and visiting his couch far from home.

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“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”
·Hypothetical

Calchas says Chryseis must be restored to her father without fee or ransom before the pestilence can end.

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“till Agamemnon has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father”
·Reported

Agamemnon says he loves Chryseis better than Clytemnestra and judges her his wife’s peer in form, feature, understanding, and accomplishments.

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“I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments”
·Remembered

Achilles remembers lovely Chryseis being chosen by the Achaeans as Agamemnon’s prize.

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“chose lovely Chryseis as the meed of Agamemnon”
·Direct

Chryseis leaves the ship and is led by Ulysses to her father’s hands at Apollo’s altar.

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“Chryseis also left the ship, and Ulysses led her to the altar to deliver her into the hands of her father”

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·Direct
“Chryseis”

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 2

And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant’s wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.