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Who is chryses? what does he want from agamemnon?

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Chryses is a Trojan - Apollos priest. Chryses went to Agamemnon because his daughter Chryseis had been taken as plunder by Agamemnon in an earlier raid and he wanted to get her freedom by offering a ransom.
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