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Also known as Chrises

mythical son of Minos and priest of Apollo

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Encyclopedic overview

Chryses attempting to ransom his daughter Chryseis from Agamemnon, Apulian red-figure crater by the Athens 1714 Painter, ca. 360 BC–350 BC, Louvre.

In Greek mythology, Chryses (/ˈkraɪsiːz/ ; Greek, Χρύσης Khrýsēs, meaning "golden") was a Trojan priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chryses” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.