Chryseis
Sign in to savethumb|Chryseis returned to her father (1771) by Benjamin West Chryseis (, , ) is a Trojan woman in Homer's Iliad, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome (). The 12th-century poet Tzetzes describes her task "very young and thin, with milky skin; had blond hair and small breasts; nineteen years old and still a virgin".
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thumb|Chryseis returned to her father (1771) by Benjamin West Chryseis (, , ) is a Trojan woman in Homer's Iliad, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome (). The 12th-century poet Tzetzes describes her task "very young and thin, with milky skin; had blond hair and small breasts; nineteen years old and still a virgin".
As the "golden one" she is also the title-giving character of the Baroque alchemical epic Chryseidos Libri IIII (1631).