Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Chryses

    mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    the priest · an old man · the old man

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Priest of Apollo and father of Chryseis

    — Are we, then, to suppose that Chryses came to the camp with ransom, bringing also the fillets of the god, and supplicated the multitude and the kings to release her, against his daughter's will;
    oration 61

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Priest of Apollo at Chryse whose daughter Chryseis was taken captive and whose rejected ransom offer provokes Apollo's plague.

    So he went back in anger, and Apollo, who loved him dearly, heard his prayer.
    chapter 1
    but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Zeus.
    chapter 1
    Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom:
    chapter 1

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    Priest of Apollo whose supplication to Agamemnon and subsequent prayer for vengeance opens the Iliad and serves as Socrates' worked example of imitation vs. narration.

    It is in this way, my dear fellow, I said, that without imitation simple narration results.
    chapter 3
    If Homer, after telling us that Chryses came with the ransom of his daughter and as a suppliant of the Achaeans but chiefly of the kings, had gone on speaking not as if made or being Chryses but still as Homer, you are aware that it would not be imitation but narration, pure and simple.
    chapter 3