Criseida is a variant form of Chryseis, used by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio in his 14th-century poem 'Il Filostrato'. In the poem, she is depicted as a woman of Troy, the daughter of Calchas, who abandons her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek hero Diomedes. This narrative was later adapted by Geoffrey Chaucer (as Criseyde) and William Shakespeare (as Cressida), solidifying her role as a tragic figure in the retellings of the Trojan War. The name has since become synonymous with themes...