Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Chryseis.
In play
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Iliad
Homer
Book 1 opens on Chryses' daughter: Agamemnon's refusal to return Chryseis brings Apollo's plague, and her ransom is the first quarrel that unmakes the Achaean camp.
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Chryseis
The priest's daughter of Chryse remains the Iliad's opening wound — the captive whose release costs Agamemnon his honor and Achilles his prize.