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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Chryses (English
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: /'krai si:z/ Greek
Greek language

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: ???s??, Khrıses) was a priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
. According to a tradition mentioned by Eustathius of Thessalonica
Eustathius of Thessalonica

Eustathius of Thessalonica was a native of Constantinople who became archbishop of Thessalonica. After being a monk in the monastery of St. Florus, he was appointed to the offices of superintendent of peti?tions , professor of rhetoric , and deacon of the church of Constantinople....
, Chryses and Briseus
Briseus

In Greek mythology, Briseus is the father of Briseis , a maiden captured by the Greeks during the Trojan War, as recorded in the Iliad. Eustathius of Thessalonica, a commentator on Homer, says Briseus and Chryses were brothers, as sons of Ardys, with Briseus dwelling in Pedasus, and Chryses residing in Chrysa; both were towns in the Troa...
 (father of Briseis
Briseis

Hippodameia Brise?s is a Troy woman captured by the Greeks in the Iliad. She was first Achilles' prize of the Trojan war; he fell in love with her....
) were brothers, sons of a man named Ardys (otherwise unknown).






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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Chryses (English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
: /'krai si:z/ Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ???s??, Khrıses) was a priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
. According to a tradition mentioned by Eustathius of Thessalonica
Eustathius of Thessalonica

Eustathius of Thessalonica was a native of Constantinople who became archbishop of Thessalonica. After being a monk in the monastery of St. Florus, he was appointed to the offices of superintendent of peti?tions , professor of rhetoric , and deacon of the church of Constantinople....
, Chryses and Briseus
Briseus

In Greek mythology, Briseus is the father of Briseis , a maiden captured by the Greeks during the Trojan War, as recorded in the Iliad. Eustathius of Thessalonica, a commentator on Homer, says Briseus and Chryses were brothers, as sons of Ardys, with Briseus dwelling in Pedasus, and Chryses residing in Chrysa; both were towns in the Troa...
 (father of Briseis
Briseis

Hippodameia Brise?s is a Troy woman captured by the Greeks in the Iliad. She was first Achilles' prize of the Trojan war; he fell in love with her....
) were brothers, sons of a man named Ardys (otherwise unknown). During the Trojan War
Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
 (prior to the actions described in Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
's Iliad
ILiad

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), Agamemnon
Agamemnon

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon / is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of Mycenae or of Argos....
 took his daughter Chryseis
Chryseis

In Greek mythology, Chryseis was a Troy woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome....
 (Astynome) as a war prize and when Chryses attempted to ransom her, refused to let her free. An oracle
Oracle

An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophecy opinion; an infallible authority, usually Spirituality in nature....
 of Apollo then sent a plague sweeping through the Greek armies, and Agamemnon was forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it. The significance of Agamemnon
Agamemnon

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon / is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of Mycenae or of Argos....
's actions lies not in the fact that he kidnapped Chryseis
Chryseis

In Greek mythology, Chryseis was a Troy woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome....
 (such abductions were commonplace in the Greek world) but in the fact that he refused to release her upon her father's request.