Chrysus (Greek:Χρυσός;Khrysos; meaning "gold"[1]) inGreek mythology is a minor god and the personification ofgold.
Chrysus is mentioned a lot in Greek literature byPindar:
Khrysos (Gold) is a child ofDelos father of metals; neither moth nor rust devoureth it; but the mind of man is devoured by this supreme possession.
— Pindar, Fragment 222 (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric 5th century BC)
In hisIsthmian Odes, Pindar also wrote:
Mother of theSun,Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else,[2]
Furthermore, a scholium on those lines wroteἐκ Θείας καὶ Ὑπερίονος ὁ Ἥλιος, ἐκ δὲ Ἡλίου ὁ χρυσός,[3] denoting a special connection of Theia, the goddess of sight and brilliance, with gold as the mother of Helios theSun.[4]
