Chryse (placename)

Chryse (Ancient Greek: Χρύση) is a name occurring in Ancient Greek geography, reported by ancient authors to have referred to the following places:

• Chryse, 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[1]
• Chrysē nēsos (Golden Island), an ancient poetical name for the island Thasos, for its gold mines[2]
• Chryse, a promontory of Lemnos opposite Tenedos[3]
• Chryse (Aeolis), a town of ancient Aeolis, now in Turkey
• Chryse (Lesbos), Lesbos, a place in Greece[3]
• Chryse (Troad), a town of the ancient Troad, now in Turkey
• Chryse, Skyros, a village or place in Ancient Greece[3]
• Chryse (Caria), a place in the area of Halicarnassus, now in Turkey[3]
• Chryse (Hellespont), located between Ophrynion and Abydos[3]
• Chryse (Bithynia), close to Chalcedon[3]
• Chrysa, Athens, a section around Pnyx[4]
• Chryse, Gaidaronisi, an island near Crete
• Isle of Chryse, a term in classical antiquity for the Malay peninsula or Sumatra
• Chryse Planitia, a plain on Mars