Chryseis

Chryseis, or Khrysêis was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses, and considered a personage in Greek mythology.

In the first book of the Iliad, Agamemnon took her as a war prize and refused to allow her father, a priest of Apollo to ransom her. An oracle of Apollo then sent a plague sweeping through the Greek armies and Agamemnon was forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it. Agamemnon compensated himself for this loss by taking Briseis from Achilles, an act that offended Achilles, who refused to take further part in the Trojan War.

A later Greek legend, preserved in Hyginus' Fabulae, states that she had a son by Agamemnon.