Chryses
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the priest · an old man · the old man
in the texts
Orations
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;
Iliad
Priest of Apollo at Chryse whose daughter Chryseis was taken captive and whose rejected ransom offer provokes Apollo's plague.
Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom:
"Chryses," said he, "King Agamemnon has sent me to bring you back your child, and to offer sacrifice to Apollo on behalf of the Danaans, that we may propitiate the god, who has now brought sorrow upon the Argives.
but Chryses, priest of Apollo, came to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and brought with him a great ransom:
Republic
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.
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.
It is in this way, my dear fellow, I said, that without imitation simple narration results.