[3] The burning of the temple, in the summer of 423 BC, is mentioned in book 4 of the same work.
She survived the fire and fled from Argos to the nearby city of Phlius.
[1] According to Pausanias,[2][4] her flight led her to Tegea, where she found asylum at the sanctuary of Athena Alea.
The catastrophe of Argos was later mentioned by the Christian theologians Clemens of Alexandria and Arnobius (who, unlike Thucydides, assumed that Chrysis herself had perished in the fire), as perceived examples of the powerlessness of heathen gods.
Her case is the topic of an entry in Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique of 1695.