Chrysothemis was the daughter of Carmanor of Crete, the priest who purified Apollo and Artemis after the killing of Python, a chthonic serpent deity that presided over the Delphic oracle.
[1] Chrysothemis has been called a poet and is named the as first to win the oldest contest of the Pythian Games.
[1] According to Diodorus Siculus, she married the argonaut Staphylus,[2] son of Dionysus and Ariadne.
While they were watching their father's wine, a drink that had only been recently discovered by men, they fell asleep.
Fearing their father's wrath, the sisters attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff into the sea.