Chryse (placename)
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Chryse is a name occurring in Ancient Greek geography, reported by ancient authors to have referred to the following places:
- Chryse is an island in the Mediterranean where, in Greek mythology, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake
- 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, after its gold mines[2]
- Chryse, a promontory of Lemnos opposite Tenedos[3]
- Chryse, a place on Lesbos[3]
- Chryse, a city or place on Skyros[3]
- Chryse, a location in Caria in the area of Halicarnassus[3]
- Chryse, a city at Hellespontus located between Ophrynion and Abydos[3]
- Chryse in Bithynia, near Chalcedon[3]
- Chrysa, a place in Athens around Pnyx[4]
- Chryse or Chrysea, an island near Crete, now Gaidaronisi
- Chryse is the Greek short name of gold-producing Chryse Chersonesos (The Golden Peninsula) in the East Indies, which may have referred to Malay peninsula
- Chryse is the name that was applied by the geographer Ptolemy to the Philippines[5] which means isle of gold[6][7]
References
- ↑ Homer, Iliad, 1. 30
- ↑ Arrian in Eustathius on Dionysius Periegetes, 589
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Khrysē
- ↑ Plutarch, Life of Theseus, 27. 3
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Peralta, J.T. "Prehistoric gold ornaments from the Central Bank of the Philippines," Arts of Asia 1981, no. 4, p. 54.
- ↑ Villegas, Ramon N. Ginto: History Wrought in Gold, Manila: Bangko Central ng Pilipinas, 2004.
