Chryse (placename)

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

  • Chryse, a former island in the Mediterranean where, in Greek mythology Philoctetes was bitten by a snake. This island is underwater now.
  • Chryse and Argyre, one of a pair of legendary islands in the Indian Ocean said to be made of gold and silver
  • Chryse, a town mentioned in Homer's Iliad, from which Agamemnon took Chryseis[1]
  • Chrysē nēsos (Golden Island), an ancient poetical name for the island Thasos, for its gold mines[2]
  • Chryse, a promontory of Lemnos opposite Tenedos[3]
  • Chryse (Aeolis), a town of ancient Aeolis, now in Turkey
  • Chryse (Lesbos), Lesbos, a place in Greece[3]
  • Chryse (Troad), a town of the ancient Troad, now in Turkey
  • Chryse, Skyros, a village or place in Ancient Greece[3]
  • Chryse (Caria), a place in the area of Halicarnassus, now in Turkey[3]
  • Chryse (Hellespont), located between Ophrynion and Abydos[3]
  • Chryse (Bithynia), close to Chalcedon[3]
  • Chrysa, Athens, a section around Pnyx[4]
  • Chryse, Gaidaronisi, an island near Crete
  • Chryse, Mindoro is the name that was given to it by Claudius Ptolemy[5] which means isle of gold[6][7]
  • Isle of Chryse, a term in classical antiquity for the Malay peninsula or Sumatra
  • Chryse_Planitia, a plain on Mars

References
  1. Homer, Iliad, 1. 30
  2. Arrian in Eustathius on Dionysius Periegetes, 589
  3. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Khrysē
  4. Plutarch, Life of Theseus, 27. 3
  5. Legeza, Laszlo. "Tantric Elements in pre-Hispanic Philippines Gold Art," Arts of Asia, July-Aug. 1988, pp.129-136. (Mentions gold jewelry of Philippine origin in first century CE Egypt)
  6. Peralta, J.T. "Prehistoric gold ornaments from the Central Bank of the Philippines," Arts of Asia 1981, no. 4, p. 54.
  7. Villegas, Ramon N. Ginto: History Wrought in Gold, Manila: Bangko Central ng Pilipinas, 2004.
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