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 In Greek mythology, Chryseis (, , ) is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the ''Iliad'', means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome (). The 12th-century poet Tzetzes desc ...

*''Chrysē nēsos'' (Golden Island), an ancient poetical name for the island

Thasos Thasos or Thassos (, ''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 380 km2 and a population of about 13,000. It forms a separate regiona ...

, for its gold mines *Chryse, a promontory of

Lemnos Lemnos ( ) or Limnos ( ) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos (regional unit), Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean modern regions of Greece ...

opposite Tenedos

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

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 (, ), in some historical contexts Romanization of Greek, Latinized Scyros (, ), is an island in Greece. It is the southernmost island of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC, the island was known as ...

, 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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