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Chryse (Ancient Greek: Χρύση) is a name occurring in Ancient Greek geography, reported by ancient authors to have referred to the following places:

  • Chryse (island), a former island in the Mediterranean where, in Greek mythology Philoctetes was bitten by a snake. This island is underwater now.
  • Chryse and Argyre, one of a pair of legendary islands in the Indian Ocean said to be made of gold and silver
  • Chryse, a town mentioned in Homer's Iliad, from which Agamemnon took Chryseis
  • Chrysē nēsos (Golden Island), an ancient poetical name for the island Thasos, for its gold mines
  • Chryse, a promontory of Lemnos opposite Tenedos
  • Chryse (Aeolis), a town of ancient Aeolis, now in Turkey
  • Chryse (Lesbos), Lesbos, a place in Greece
  • Chryse (Troad), a town of the ancient Troad, now in Turkey
  • Chryse, Skyros, a village or place in Ancient Greece
  • Chryse (Caria), a place in the area of Halicarnassus, now in Turkey
  • Chryse (Hellespont), located between Ophrynion and Abydos
  • Chryse (Bithynia), close to Chalcedon
  • Chryse, Gaidaronisi, an island near Crete
  • Isle of Chryse, a term in classical antiquity for the Malay peninsula or Sumatra

References

  1. Homer, Iliad, 1. 30
  2. Arrian in Eustathius on Dionysius Periegetes, 589
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Khrysē

See also

  1. Plutarch, Life of Theseus, 27. 3
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