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Calchas (kăl`kăs), in Greek legend, seer whose prophecies aided the Greeks in the Trojan War Trojan War, in Greek mythology, war between the Greeks and the people of Troy. The strife began after the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. When Menelaus demanded her return, the Trojans refused. ..... Click the link for more information. . In medieval romances, he is the father of Cressida. Calchas dies from grief on encountering even wiser soothsayer. [Gk. Myth.: LLEI, I: 325] See : Jealousy Calchas declares that Iphigenia must be sacrificed to appease Artemis and ensure the Greeks’ safe passage to Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 261] See : Prophecy |
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With these words he sat down, and Calchas son of Thestor, wisest of augurs, who knew things past present and to come, rose to speak. Placed in an envelope, and addressed to Fouquet, it had not even been divined by Planchet, who in divination was equal to Calchas or the Pythian Apollo. Its subject, however, seems to have been the histories of famous seers like Mopsus, Calchas, and Teiresias, and it probably took its name from Melampus, the most famous of them all. |
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