Chryseis

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Chryseis ( Greek  Χρυσηίς ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of the priest Chryses at the sanctuary of Apollon Smintheus in Chryse .

She was stolen from Achilles in the Trojan War , but given to Agamemnon when the booty was divided and made his lover. At the beginning of the Iliad , Homer relates : When her father inherited her back from Agamemnon in the Greek camp, he was threatened and chased away by the latter. He pleaded with Apollo for vengeance and the latter sent his arrows into the camp of the Greeks , where they brought death, plague and destruction. Agamemnon had to give Chryseis back in order to please the god, but demanded the concubine of Achilles , Briseis , as a replacement . The latter had to bow to the military leader, refused further military service out of hurt vanity and thus brought the Greeks into great distress. This "wrath of Achilles" is a central theme of the Iliad.

The character of Chryseis was taken up by the US-American writer Philip José Farmer in his novel cycle "The World of Tiers", where she embodies the companion of Jadawin, the lord of the eponymous world. The asteroid (202) Chryseïs is also named after her.

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  1. Homer , Ilias 1, 1–393 ( ancient Greek and English ( memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.library.northwestern.edu
  2. Homer : Iliad (in the German translation by Johann Heinrich Voss) in the Gutenberg-DE project
  3. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names in Google Book Search