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Chrysothemis

Χρυσόθεμις

(Χρυσόθεμις) There are four mythical females of this name (Hyg. Fab. 170, Poet. Astr. 2.25; Diod. 5.22; Hom. Il. 9.287), and one male, a son of Carmanor, the priest of Apollo at Tarrha in Crete. He is said to have been a poet, and to have won the first victory in the Pythian games by a hymn on Apollo. (Paus. 10.7.2.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.