Agamemnon refused, and insulted Chryses, who prayed to Apollo to avenge his ill-treatment.

Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.

# Chryses, priest of Apollo

Chryses, a priest of Apollo and father of Chryseis, came to Agamemnon to ask for the return of his daughter.

In the Iliad, Calchas tells the Greeks that the captive Chryseis must be returned to her father Chryses in order to get Apollo to stop the plague he has sent as a punishment: this triggered the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the main theme of the Iliad.

In Greek mythology, Chryses ( English: /' krai si: z /; Greek: Χρύσης-Khrúsēs ) was a priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy.

In Greek mythology, Chryseis (,, ) was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses.

He was less productive as a poet than either Ennius or Accius ; and we hear of only about twelve of his plays, founded on Greek subjects ( among them the Antiope, Teucer, Armorum Judicium, Dulorestes, Chryses, Niptra, & c., most of them on subjects connected with the Trojan cycle ), and one praetexta ( Paulus ) written in connexion with the victory of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus at the Battle of Pydna ( 168 BC ), as the Clastidium of Naevius and the Ambracia of Ennius were written in commemoration of great military successes.

Chryses pleading with Agamemnon for his daughter ( 360 – 350 BC )

Chryses attempting to ransom his daughter Chryseis from Agamemnon, Apulia n red-figure Krater | crater by the Athens 1714 Painter, ca.

During the Trojan War ( prior to the actions described in Homer's Iliad ), Agamemnon took Chryses ' daughter Chryseis ( Astynome ) from Moesia as a war prize and when Chryses attempted to ransom her, refused to return her.

He killed Thoas after finding out that the son of Chryseis, called " younger Chryses ", was also the son of Agamemnon.

His chief fault was his overwhelming haughtiness ; an over-exalted opinion of his position that led him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.

Chryses, with help from Orestes, was also responsible for the death of Thoas.

Accounts vary as to his own parentage: one source states that he was thought to be the son of Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon ; in another account he is called son of Poseidon and Callirhoe ; yet others variously give his father as Chryses ( son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia, daughter of Almus ), Ares, Aleus or Eteoclus.

Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply " Chryses ' daughter "; later writers give her real name as Astynome ().

* Chryses, father of Chryseis

She claims to be the same Chryseis, daughter of Chryses portrayed in the tale of the Trojan war.

By a nymph, Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus, who were killed by Heracles in revenge for the murder of the latter's two companions ; and by Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son Euxanthius.

After he killed Thoas, Chryses went to Mycenae with the statue of Diana still in perfect shape.

According to the story, Croesus called out to Apollo and prayed to him.

She gave birth to a son on the island and named him Anius ( as if from " to suffer "); she then put him on the altar of Apollo and prayed to the god that the baby be saved if it was his.

When he prayed to Apollo, the god advised him to kill his mother.

According to the story in Plutarch ( Theseus, 18 ), Theseus, before setting out to Crete to slay the Minotaur, repaired to the Delphinium and deposited, on his own behalf and that of his companions on whom the lot had fallen, an offering to Apollo, consisting of a branch of consecrated olive, bound about with white wool ; after which he prayed to the god and set sail.

Babi was also prayed to, in order to ensure that an individual would not suffer from impotence after death.

In order to avoid continuous warfare with the Armenians, Semiramis, reputed to be a sorceress, took his body and prayed to the gods to raise Ara from the dead.

In order to justify Mazu's presence in Buddhist temples, legends were circulated claiming that Mazu's parents prayed to Guan Yin for a son, but Guanyin answered their prayers with the birth of yet another daughter.

When the time for prayer arrived, however, he left the church and prayed outside the compound, in order to avoid having future generations of Muslims use his prayer there as a pretext for converting the church into a mosque.

Bishops have, in virtue of their God-given powers, full authority within their dioceses in all matters of dispensation, patronage and the like ; papal bulls, briefs, etc., and the decrees of the Roman Congregations are only of binding force in each diocese when sanctioned by the bishop ; nunciatures, as hitherto conceived, are to cease ; the oath of allegiance to the pope demanded of bishops since Gregory VII's time is to be altered so as to bring it into conformity with episcopal rights ; annates and the fees payable for the pallium and confirmation are to be lowered and, in the event of the palhum or confirmation being refused, German archbishops and bishops are to be free to exercise their office under the protection of the emperor ; with the Church tribunals of first and second instance ( episcopal and metropolitan ) the nuncios at Cologne are not to interfere, and, though appeal to Rome is allowed under certain national safe-guards, the opinion is expressed that it would be better to set up in each archdiocese a final court of appeal representing the provincial synod ; finally the emperor is prayed to use his influence with the pope to secure the assembly of a national council in order to remove the grievances left unredressed by the council of Trent.

It is also claimed that in 1579, the Armenian patriarch Hovhannes I of Constantinople prayed day and night in order to obtain the Holy Fire, but lightning miraculously struck a column near the entrance and lit a candle held by the Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem Sophronius IV standing nearby.

They prayed to St. Joseph for deliverance, and when they were saved, they swore to honor the saint each year on his feast day.

A Banner ( gonfalone ) was painted in 1465 for the brotherhood of San Bernardino, and representing the deeds of their patron saint ; another Gonfalone painted for the brotherhood of San Fiorenzo in 1476, in honor of the Virgin, who had been prayed to intercede for the cessation of the plague.

In 1281, an altar was erected in her honor at that church, and it preserved her severed head as a relic and began to call itself the church of St. Solange, while a nearby field where she had prayed began to be referred to as the " Field of St.

According to a royal hymn composed in his honor, he was born “ in the mountains that nobody knows ,” suggesting he may have been born in exile, or perhaps a literary device, as it continues: “ I was without understanding and I prayed not of your majesty .” It relates that, when Ištar appointed him to the kingship, he had restored her overthrown cult.

However a Danish priest on top of a hill overlooking the battle prayed to God, which meant that the Danes moved closer to victory the more he prayed.

Among the prayers the priest says is Psalm 141: 2-4: " Let my prayer, O Lord, be directed as incense in Thy sight ;...", which is prayed as he incenses the altar.

They washed their hands and took up the barley-meal to sprinkle over the victims, while priest lifted up his hands and prayed aloud on their behalf.

But while he was a skeptic about the tenets of organized religion, during his late-2004 bout of serious illness he admitted he had prayed in various ways, including with a Catholic priest who was a friend of his ; and he said that he had discussed religion with several of his Jewish friends, including political commentator Jon Keller and conservative newspaper columnist Jeff Jacoby.

They prayed in different synagogues, sent their children to different schools, lived in different quarters and did not intermarry.

Sarai prayed to God to deliver her from the king, and He thereupon sent an angel, who struck Pharaoh whenever he attempted to touch her.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them ; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

In 2006, according to the Asia Times, " Lee also sent a video prayer message to a Christian rally held in the southern city of Busan in which the worship leader prayed feverishly: ' Lord, let the Buddhist temples in this country crumble down!

God watches over people and makes decisions directly with their prayers and it is in this context that the guardian angels are sent back and forth as emissaries to aid in this task, thus, they are not prayed to directly but are part of the workings of how the prayer and response comes about.

They were sent into the water while Orthodox priests, who came from Chersonesos for the occasion, prayed.

When the city of Aegina was depopulated by a plague sent by Hera in jealous reprisal for Zeus's love of Aegina, the king Aeacus prayed to Zeus for the ants that were currently infesting an oak tree to morph into humans to repopulate his kingdom.

Eskil prayed, and God sent thunder, hail, snow and rain destroying the sacrificial altar and beasts of sacrifice.

The people prayed to the goddess Ishtar ( see also, The Empress ) and she sent Enkidu to teach Gilgamesh to be human.