Chryseis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Chryseis (/kraɪˈsiːɪs/, Ancient Greek: Χρυσηΐς, romanized: Khrysēís, pronounced [kʰrysɛːís]) may refer to the following women:

• Chryseis, one of the Oceanids, daughters of the Titans of the sea, Oceanus and Tethys.[1] Chryseis was also one of the companions, along with her sisters, of Persephone when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades, the god of the underworld.[2]
• Chryseis, one of the 50 daughters of the Boeotian king, Thespius and possibly Megamede. She became the mother Onesippus by the Heracles.[3]
• Chryseis, also called Astynome,[4][5][6][7] a Trojan woman and daughter of Chryses.[8]

Notes

1. Hesiod, Theogony 349–361
2. Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 418–423
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8
4. Scholia on the Iliad
5. Hesychius, Lexicon
6. Malalas, Chronographia 100
7. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 1.123.9 van der Valk
8. Homer, Iliad 1.378

References

• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.