Chryse

Chryse is a name occurring in Ancient Greek geography, reported by ancient authors to have referred to the following places: Chryse (island), 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 Chrysē nēsos (Golden Island), an ancient poetical name for the island Thasos, for its gold mines Chryse, a promontory of Lemnos opposite Tenedos Chryse (Aeolis), a town of ancient Aeolis, now in Turkey Chryse (Lesbos), Lesbos, a place in Greece Chryse (Troad), a town of the ancient Troad, now in Turkey Chryse, Skyros, a village or place in Ancient Greece Chryse (Caria), a place in the area of Halicarnassus, now in Turkey Chryse (Hellespont), located between Ophrynion and Abydos Chryse (Bithynia), close to Chalcedon Chryse, Gaidaronisi, an island near Crete Isle of Chryse, a term in classical antiquity for the Malay peninsula or Sumatra References See also Chrysa, Athens, a section around Pnyx