Chryse ( grc, Χρύση) 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 Chryse and Argyre ( and ) were a pair of legendary islands, located in the Indian Ocean and said to be made of gold (''chrysos'' in Greek) and silver (''argyros''). In Book 6, chapter 23 of his '' Natural History'', concerning the regions near ...

, 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 Thasos or Thassos ( el, Θάσος, ''Thásos'') is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area. The island has an area of and a population of about 13,000. It forms a separate r ...

, for its gold mines *Chryse, a promontory of

Lemnos Lemnos or Limnos ( el, Λήμνος; grc, Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The p ...

opposite Tenedos Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. ''Khrysē'' * 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 Skyros ( el, Σκύρος, ), in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros ( grc, Σκῦρος, ), is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the ...

, 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

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