Chryse (island)
Chryse ( Greek Χρύση, Χρύσα "the golden one") is an island in the Aegean Sea near Lemnos in Greek mythology .
On their way to Troy for the Trojan War , the Greek fleet stopped in Chryse to replenish its water supplies. When Philoctetes found an altar of Pallas Athene erected by Jason on the island , he wanted to sacrifice to the goddess there. He was bitten by a snake. Since the rest of the Greeks felt unbearably bothered by the stench of the festering wound and the cries of pain of Philoctetes as they drove on, they commissioned Odysseus to leave him on Lemnos. Later he fetched him back with a ruse, as they could not do without his magic bow before Troy.
The island is also mentioned in this context in the Philoctetes dramas by Aeschylus , Sophocles and Euripides .
According to Pausanias ' description, the island later sank into the floods of the Mediterranean. In 1960, an Italian diver and amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the island.
literature
- Ludwig Bürchner : Chryse 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2486 f. ( Digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Sophocles , Philoctetes 194, 270; Philostratus , Heroicus 5,3.
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8, 33, 4 (German at Google Books ).
- ↑ "Philoctetes Was Here" , Time magazine, December 19, 1960