#chryses

[ala-chrisgoods]

Day 20-Chryses

[aeriririr1]

astynome (chryseis)

I DONT KNOW LIGHTING BROO and yes I also tried drawing noses differently wow

also the speedpaint cause why not

(the sketch at the beginning is mine, it’s just an old one I drew and forgot about)

[katerinaaqu]

Okay I think I got the microbe of the song "Everything at once" and here's my own take on it with the Homeric kings queens and princes or princesses 😁

As sly as a fox -> Odysseus

As strong as an ox -> Hector

As fast as a hare -> Achilles

As brave as a bear -> Patroclus

As free as a bird -> Paris

As neat as a word -> Nestor

As quiet as a mouse -> Phoenix

As big as a house -> Ajax the Great

As mean as a wolf -> Ajax the Lesser

As sharp as a tooth -> Pyrhus/Neoptolemus

As deep as a bite -> Hecuba

As dark as the night -> Sarpedon

As sweet as a song -> Briseis

As right as a wrong -> Palamedes

As long as a road -> Achises

As ugly as a toad -> Thersites

As pretty as a picture hanging from a fixture -> Helen

Strong like a family, strong as I wanna be -> Agamemnon

Bright as day -> Helenus

As light as play -> Chryseis

As hard as nails -> Philoctetes

As grand as a whale -> Antilochus

As warm as the sun -> Cassandra

As silly as fun -> Sinon

As cool as a tree -> Polyxena

As scary as the sea -> Diomedes

As hot as fire -> Troilus

Cold as ice -> Chryses

Sweet as sugar and everything nice -> Scamandrius/Astyanax

As old as time -> Priam

As straight as a line -> Menelaus

As royal as a queen -> Andromache

As buzzed as a bee -> Laocoon

As stealth as a tiger -> Idomeneus

Smooth as a glider -> Teucer

Pure as a melody, pure as I wanna be -> Aeneas

[men-of-the-epic-cycle]

Agamemnon in his tent refusing to give Chryseis back

-- Joseph-Marie Vien

[venomspecs]

He's always on that damn 🤔

[galusandmalus]

Iphigenia's weird adventures post sacrifice

i got a bit annoyed at how everyone goes with iphegenia death like she has some adventures post death and even post euripidies and generally other versions to the play first tho she fucking whack bro and we love her for it "For Iphigeneia asked everyone who was caught and brought to her to be sacrificed, what country they were from, and then she slaughtered them, because she wanted to learn about her father Agamemnon and his affairs, and what happened about the war with the Phrygians. The cowherds told her, “One of them called the other Pylades, but the name of his partner we don’t know. He didn’t say.” She told them, “What business is it of a cowherd at the sea?” They said, “We came to bathe the cows in the cool sea.” She sent Scythians, who caught them.

She examined his right shoulder blade and saw it had the Pelopeian stamp. She embraced Orestes, and ordered that his ships be brought on shore along with the sailors. Having beached the ships, they remained through the winter. When summer came, Orestes and Pylades took Iphigeneia and the solid gold statue of Artemis secretly and fled in their ships. They crossed over to the land of the Adiabenians. From there they came to the eastern Saracen border. They went up in the land of Palestine toward Trikomia [Three Villages]. The people in Trikomia noticed Iphigeneia’s priestly garb, and received her with honors. They stayed there, and Orestes was taken with madness there too. The Trikomitai built a great sanctuary of Artemis and asked Iphigeneia to sacrifice a virgin girl, whose name they would give to the village (kome). They brought the girl, whose name was Nyssa, and made the sacrifice to Artemis. They made a bronze statue of the slaughtered girl as Tyche. Iphigeneia called the city, which had been a village before, Nyssa, after the girl she had slaughtered, and made an altar for her. On it she wrote, “Accept the fugitives from Scythia, plant Goddess Nyssa,” which is still written there." "and opposite the channel of Mt. Silpe you will find a mountain named Melantion, where there is a great temple of Hestia. There put aside your rabid mania. Go there. What I said will happen.” Having been thus advised, Orestes noted it down"

"Orestes and his companions reached Syria. Disembarking, they asked where the Melantion mountain and sanctuary of Hestia were."

"Finding it, they went into the sanctuary. They made a sacrifice and stayed to sleep there. Orestes was delivered of his most cruel disease and left the sanctuary."

“On that mountain, in the sanctuary of the divine Hestia I put off the cruel mania. The Ionitai immediately made a bronze statue of him in that pose, when he was showing them, and stood it on a column to the memory and glory of the land and the sanctuary of Hestia. They indicated to those coming after where Orestes put off the rabid mania"-Malalas, Chronography

"Others say it is a chasm in Tauris, from which they say flame is brought, into which Iphigenia threw the ones being killed. "Feasting" refers to cooking and the killing of strangers in Tauris" "the Black One" either Persephone or Iphigenia" -Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem

*after iphigenia among the taurians "Iphigenia, seizing the opportunity, took the statue, embarked with Orestes and Pylades, and by a favouring breeze was borne to the island Zminthe to Chryses, priest of Apollo" (he's the son of Chryseis and Agamemnon)

"Later, when Chryses was about to return Iphigenia and Orestes to Thoas, he [Chryses the Elder] learned that they were children of Agamemnon, and revealed to Chryses his [grand]son the truth—that they were brothers and that he was a son of Agamemnon. Then Chryses, thus informed, with Orestes his brother, killed Thoas, and from there they came safe to Mycenae with the statue of Diana.

To Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, a messenger came, falsely saying that her brother and Pylades had been sacrificed in Taurica to Diana. When Aletes, Aegisthus'son, heard that no-one of the race of the Atreidae survived, he seized the kingly power in Mycenae. But Electra went to Delphi to inquire about her brother's violent death. She came thee the same day that Iphigenia and Orestes arrived. The same messenger who had reported about Orestes, said that Iphigenia was the murderess of her brother. When Electra heard this, she seized a burning firebrand from the altar, and in her ignorance would have blinded her sister Iphigenia if Orestes had not intervened. After this recognition they came to Mycenae, and Orestes killed Aletes, son of Aegisthus, and would have killed Erigone, daughter of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, but Diana rescued her and made her a priestess in the Attic land." -Hyginus, Fabulae

 "But I shall explain how this temple came into being. When Orestes had departed in haste from the Taurians with his sister, it so happened that he contracted some disease. And when he made inquiry about the disease they say that the oracle responded that his trouble would not abate until he built a temple to Artemis in a spot such as the one among the Taurians, and there cut off his hair and named the city after it"

"The disease continued to be as violent as before, if not even more so. Then the man perceived that he was not satisfying the oracle by doing these things, and he again went about looking everywhere and found a certain spot in Cappadocia very closely resembling the one among the Taurians. I myself have often seen this place and admired it exceedingly, and have imagined that I was in the land of the Taurians. For this mountain resembles the other remarkably, since the Taurus is here also and the river Sarus is similar to the Euphrates there. So Orestes built in that place an imposing city and two temples, the one to Artemis and the other to his sister Iphigenia, which the Christians have made sanctuaries for themselves, without changing their structure at all. This is called even now Golden Comana, being named from the hair of Orestes,” -Procopius, History of the Wars “There are two cities of this same name in Cappadocia, not very far apart, and they covet the same honours; for the stories they tell, and likewise the relics they exhibit, are the same in every case, including the sword, which each possesses, supposed to be that which belonged to Iphigenia. So much for this matter.”-Dio Cassius, Histories

oracle-iphegenia????

"He was speaking of Iphigenia, whom the god proclaimed in an oracle they should sacrifice to Artemis when a lack of wind was holding back the Greeks"

"A city of Boeotia. And he is speaking of Iphigenia, whom the god proclaimed in an oracle they should sacrific to Artemis when a lack of wind was holding back the Greeks, because of the boasts of Agamemnon, who had shot with an arrow a deer and said not even Artemis would have shot (it) like this."

REVENGE "And when he began to sacrifice her, the goddess snatched her away and provided a deer in her place for sacrifice; she carries the maiden away to be among the Hyperboreans, to her temple there. And she (Iphigenia), taking revenge on the Greeks because they wanted to sacrifice her, whenever she saw one of them coming there, put him to death. Later on she returned to Argos thanks to Orestes, who stole her away." -scholia: Orestes

[nardialrose]

Alternative version where Agamemnon laid hands on Chryseis, thus sired a son

CHRYSES: When Agamemnon was on his was to Troy, Achilles, too, came to Moesia, and took Chryseis, daughter of the priest of Apollo, and gave her in marriage to Agamemnon. When Chryses came to Agamemnon to beg him to return his daughter, he was refused. Because of this Apollo destroyed almost all the army, partly by famine, partly by pestilence. And so Agamemnon sent back Chryseis, though she was pregnant, to the priest. Though she claimed to be untouched by him, when her time came she bore Chryses the Younger, and said she had conceived by Apollo. Later when Chryses was about to return Iphigenia and Orestes to Thoas, he [Chryses the Elder] learned that they were children of Agamemnon, and revealed to Chryses his [grand]son the truth — that they were brothers and that he was a son of Agamemnon. Then Chryses, thus informed, with Orestes his brother, killed Thoas, and from there they came safe to Mycenae with the statue of Diana.

-Hyginus, Fabulae 121

(there's a possibility Sophocles' lost play Chryses is the source of this story as noted by Elaine Fantham)

The area beyond the sea is a plain sitting upon the shore. It is called Chrysopolis, some say, because here under Persian rule they collected the gold assigned from the cities, but most say that it is on account of the tomb of Chrysos, the child of Chryseis and Agamemnon. For he is said to have come here fleeing in fear of Aigisthos and Klytaimnestra, intending to cross over to Tauris to Iphigeneia his sister. For Iphigeneia was already priestess of Artemis. But he died of disease and left his name to the place. But the name could have come from the convenience of the harbor, since wonderful things are compared to gold.

-Dionysius of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporos 109

So Melias the king of the Thracians invited him to a hunting contest and Byzas carried off the glory, offering the bull he subdued for sacrifice and appeasing the ancestral daimones at the junction of the above-mentioned rivers, when an eagle suddenly appeared and snatched the heart of the victim and stood at the extreme point of the Bosporian headland opposite the so-called Chrysopolis, which name was left by Chryses, the child born to Chryseis and Agamemnon, when he was fleeing the malice of Klytaimnestra after the murder of his father and was hastening in search of Iphigeneia. When destruction reached him there, the locals made a tomb monument.

-Hesychius, Patria of Constantinople 11

...Others do not say that Iphigenia is the daughter of either Helen or Clytemnestra, but they claim that she is the child of Chryseis and Agamemnon, born along with Chryses.

-Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem 183

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

The anger of Apollo

Trojan priest Chryses invokes Apollo to punish the Greeks.

Illustration by Clement Gontier (1876-1918)