Chrysis
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Character in Trabea's comic verse anticipated by the lustful speaker
When Chrysis catches sight of me unawares, eager she will come to meet me, longing for my embrace, will give herself to me.
Protrepticus
Priestess of Argos who perished when fire destroyed her temple.
This fire burned down the temple in Argos, together with its priestess Chrysis;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Priestess of Hera (Juno) at Argos whose negligence caused the temple to burn down, prompting her flight into exile.
Chrysis immediately, the same night, fled to Phlius, in her fear of the Argives;
The temple of Juno at Argos was also burnt down that same summer, in consequence of Chrysis the priestess having placed a lighted torch near the garlands, and fallen asleep after it;