Cressida is a character who appears in many Medieval and Renaissance retellings of the story of the Trojan War. She is a Greek woman, captured and enslaved by the Trojans, who falls in love with a Trojan prince, Troilus. She pledges everlasting love, but when she is sent back to the Greeks as part of a hostage exchange, she goes to live in the Greek warrior Diomedes' tent. She was usually depicted by writers as a paragon of female inconstancy. Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one-thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. ... Renaissance literature is European literature over an extended period, usually considered to be initiated by Petrarch at the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, and sometimes taken to continue to the English Renaissance, including Shakespeare and into the seventeenth century. ... The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Acheans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... Troilus is a character in medieval and Renaissance versions of the legend of the Trojan War. ... In Greek mythology, Diomêdês (god-like cunning) was the son of Tydeus and Deipyle and a favored hero of Athena. ...

The story of Troilus and Cressida is a medieval invention and does not appear in any Greek legends. The best known versions are Geoffrey Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde, and William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (c.1603). Chaucer: Illustration from Cassells History of England, circa 1902 Geoffrey Chaucer (c. ... Troilus and Criseyde is Geoffrey Chaucers poem in rhyme royal re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The History of Troilus and Cressida is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1602, shortly after the completion of Hamlet. ... Events March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey July 17 or July 19 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested for treason. ...

Various things have been named after Cressida:

• Cressida is a moon of Uranus.
• 548 Kressida is an asteroid.
• Cressida is a genus of swallowtail butterfly
• The Toyota Motor Corporation sold a line of cars in the United States named Cressida from the 1970's through 1992, The Cressida was, at the time, Toyota's flagship luxury model in the US.

the car continued production for the Japanese market until around 1995. Used to share platforms with the Toyota mark II(now replaced by the mark X), Toyota chaser(now replaced by the Lexus IS series) and Toyota cresta. Atmospheric pressure 0 kPa Cressida (KRESS i da) is a moon of Uranus. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 120 kPa Hydrogen 83% Helium 15% Methane 1. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... Author: Latreille, 1802 Type species: Papilio machaon (Common Yellow Swallowtail) Diversity: 26 genera 605 species Genera Subfamily Baroniinae Baronia Subfamily Parnassiinae Archon Hypermnestra Parnassus Luehdorfia Bhutantis Alancastria Serecinus Subfamily Papilioninae Eurytides Graphium Iphiclides Lamproptera Mimoides Protesilaus Protographium Teinopalpus Atrophaneura Battus Byasa Cressida Euryades Losaria Ornithoptera Pachliopta Parides Pharmacophagus Trogonoptera Troides... Toyota redirects here. ... The Toyota Cressida was a high-end luxury sedan introduced by Toyota in 1973, with exports commencing with the second generation in 1977. ...