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Chryseis
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Greek_mythology/M7k4FvW8">Greek mythology</a>, Chryseis is a <a href="/facts/Troy/RYze9Kpu">Trojan</a> woman, the daughter of <a href="/facts/Chryses/1up4xQVX">Chryses</a>. Chryseis, her apparent name in the <i><a href="/facts/Iliad/HceJKUGB">Iliad</a></i>, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome (Ἀστυνόμη). The 12th-century poet <a href="/facts/John_Tzetzes/sY4LJy1z">Tzetzes</a> describes her to be "very young and thin, with milky skin; had blond hair and small breasts; nineteen years old and still a virgin". </p><p>As the "golden one" she is also the title-giving character of the Baroque alchemical epic <a href="/facts/Johannes_Nicolaus_Furichius/F0P3mzFG">Chryseidos Libri IIII</a> (1631). </p>