In Greek mythology , Chryseis (, Ancient Greek : Χρυσηΐς , romanized : Khrysēís , pronounced [kʰrysɛːís] means 'gold') may refer to the following women:
Chryseis, one of the 3,000 Oceanids , daughters of the Titans of the sea, Oceanus and Tethys .[ 1] [ 2] 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 .[ 3]
Chryseis, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede [ 4] or by one of his many wives.[ 5] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion ,[ 6] Chryseis with her other sisters, except for one,[ 7] all laid with the hero in a night,[ 8] a week[ 9] or for 50 days[ 10] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[ 11] Chryseis bore Heracles a son, Onesippus .[ 12]
Chryseis , also called Astynome ,[ 13] a Trojan woman and daughter of Chryses .[ 14]
Chrysis, one of the maenads named in a vase painting.[ 15]
^ Hesiod , Theogony 349–361
^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. pp. 87, 199. ISBN 9780786471119 .
^ Homeric Hymn to Demeter 418–423
^ Apollodorus , 2.4.10 ; Tzetzes , Chiliades 2.222
^ Diodorus Siculus , 4.29.2
^ Apollodorus , 2.4.9 .
^ Pausanias , 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
^ Athenaeus , 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
^ Apollodorus , 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
^ Apollodorus , 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
^ Apollodorus , 2.7.8
^ Scholia on the Iliad; Hesychius , Lexicon; Malalas , Chronographia 100; Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 1.123.9 van der Valk
^ Homer , Iliad 1.378
^ Walters, Henry Beauchamp (1905). History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Based on the Work of Samuel Birch . Vol. 2. pp. 65 .