What is "chryse"

Chryse may refer to:

Chryse (, "Golden") was a small island in the Aegean Sea mentioned by Homer, Sophocles and Pausanias.

The island's main feature was said to be its temple to Apollo, and its patron deity a goddess named Chryse. The Greek archer Philoctetes stopped there on his way to Troy and was fatally bitten by a viper. Lucullus captured three men there in an ambush during the Third Mithridatic War. The island seems to have disappeared by the 2nd century AD; it is mentioned by Pausanias and Appian. An ancient oracle (written by Onomacritus) may have predicted this end.

The Description of Greece says:

An amateur underwater archaeologist claimed to have rediscovered the island in 1960, identifying it with "a sunken land mass known as Kharos Bank, a 10-sq.-mi. area near the island of Lemnos", listed on British naval charts and located about below the surface. White building blocks (presumably from Apollo's temple) were said to be visible on the sea floor. The Kharos Bank is mentioned by others as a possible site, but there does not appear to have been further work on it.

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

• Chryse is an island in the Mediterranean where, in Greek mythology, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake
• 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, after its gold mines
• Chryse, a promontory of Lemnos opposite Tenedos
• Chryse, a place on Lesbos
• Chryse, a city or place on Skyros
• Chryse, a location in Caria in the area of Halicarnassus
• Chryse, a city at Hellespontus located between Ophrynion and Abydos
• Chryse in Bithynia, near Chalcedon
• Chrysa, a place in Athens around Pnyx
• Chryse or Chrysea, an island near Crete, now Gaidaronisi
• Chryse is the Greek short name of gold-producing Chryse Chersonesos (The Golden Peninsula) in the East Indies, which may have referred to Malay peninsula
• Chryse is the name that was applied by the geographer Ptolemy to the Philippines which means isle of gold

In Greek mythology, the name Chryse ( or "golden") may refer to:

• Chryse, daughter of Almus, a lover of Ares and mother of Phlegyas.
• Chryse, a nymph or minor goddess of Lemnos (or of Chryse Island) who lured Philoctetes away from his companions which resulted in him bitten by a snake. Some sources state that Chryse was a local epithet of Athena, and the misfortune happened to Philoctetes next to her altar, which the snake was guarding. The altar was said to have been set up by Jason.
• Chryse, daughter of Pallas and consort of Dardanus.
• Chryse, daughter of Timander, sister of Eurytione, Hellotis and Cottyto, from Corinth.
• Chryse, a surname of Aphrodite on Lesbos.