Amphilochus followed the opinion of Calchas, but the prediction of Mopsus was fully verified.

Calchas first asked his antagonist how many figs a neighboring tree bore ; ten thousand and one, replied Mopsus.

Calchas died of shame at Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War ( told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia ): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying, although Strabo placed an oracle of Calchas on Monte Gargano in Magna Graecia.

As Calchas and the other heroes on their way home from Troy came upon the seer Mopsus in Colophon, the two competed in their mantic qualities.

Calchas couldn't equal Mopsus ' skills as a seer, being a son of Apollo and Manto, so he died.

Notium served as the port, and in the neighbourhood was the village of Clarus, with its famous temple and oracle of Apollo Clarius, where Calchas vied with Mopsus in divinatory science.

After the Trojan War, the Trojan seer Calchas, like the Theban seeress Manto ( above ), was among the refugees at Clarus, where he challenged Mopsus, the charismatic son of Manto and Rhacius, and superseded him as seer of the oracular site, and there he eventually died ( Argonautica1. 308 ; Ovid Metamorphoses 1. 516 and 11. 413 ; Strabo 14. 4. 3 ).

According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke asserts that Thetis was courted by both Zeus and Poseidon, but she was married off to the mortal Peleus because of their fears about the prophecy by Themis ( or Prometheus, or Calchas, according to others ) that her son would become greater than his father.

In the Roman, the daughter of Calchas is called Briseis, but she is better known under a different name, becoming Criseida in Boccaccio's il Filostrato, Criseyde in Chaucer, Cresseid in Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid and ultimately Cressida in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.

Calchas had prophesied that the first Achean to walk on land after stepping off a ship would be the first to die.

Having been consulted, on one occasion, by Amphilochus, who wished to know what success would attend his arms in a war which he was going to undertake, he predicted the greatest calamities ; but Calchas, who had been the soothsayer of the Greeks during the Trojan War, promised the greatest successes.

A prophet named Calchas told him that in order to appease Artemis, Agamemnon would have to sacrifice the most precious thing that had come to his possession in the year he killed the sacred deer.

It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.

Kierkegaard says, " If Agamemnon himself, not Calchas, should have drawn the knife to kill Iphigenia, he would only have demeaned himself if in the very last moment he had said a few words, for the meaning of his deed was, after all, obvious to everybody, the process of reverence, sympathy, emotion, and tears was completed, and then, too, his life had no relation to spirit-that is, he was not a teacher or a witness of the spirit.

Finally, the prophet Calchas announced that the wrath of the goddess could only be propitiated by the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia.

In the Iliad, Calchas tells the Greeks that the captive Chryseis must be returned to her father Chryses in order to get Apollo to stop the plague he has sent as a punishment: this triggered the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the main theme of the Iliad.

It is also said that Calchas died of laughter when the day that was to be his death day arrived and the prediction didn't seem to materialize.

In Seneca's version of The Trojan Women, the prophet Calchas declares that Astyanax must be thrown from the walls if the Greek fleet is to be allowed favorable winds ( 365 – 70 ), but once led to the tower, the child himself leaps off the walls ( 1100 – 3 ).

Meanwhile, Cressida's father, the treacherous Trojan priest Calchas, asks the Greek commanders to exchange a Trojan prisoner for his daughter, so that he may be reunited with her.

Calchas warns that Ajax should not be allowed to leave his tent until the end of the day or he will die.

To fulfil this audience's expectation that heroic characters should be lovers in accordance with the principles of courtly love, Benoît invented the story of the young Trojan prince Troilus's love for the daughter of Calchas, the priestly defector to the Greeks.

The Greek seer named Calchas prophesied that Philoctetes ( whom the Greeks had abandoned on the island of Lemnos due to the vile odour from snakebite ) and the bow of Heracles are needed to take Troy.

According to Strabo, a heroum of Podalirius, and another of Calchas, were located in Daunia, Italy, on a hill known as Drium.

Calchas, the Greek prophet, prophesies that the city of Troy will not fall unless the Greeks recover the arrows of Heracles from the hero Philoctetes, who was left behind on Lemnos when he was bit by a poisonous snake.

The morrow proved the veracity of his prediction, and Calchas died through the grief which his defeat produced.

The assembled leaders offer ill-omened sacrifice at Aulis, where the prophet Calchas warns the Greeks that the war will last ten years.

The legend related by Herodotus and Strabo, which ascribed the origin of the Pamphylians to a colony led into their country by Amphilochus and Calchas after the Trojan War, is merely a characteristic myth.

The seer Calchas advised Agamemnon that the only way to appease Artemis was to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia.

Calchas said that Helenus knew the prophecies concerning the fall of Troy, so Odysseus waylaid Helenus.

This had such an effect upon Calchas that he died soon after.

The soothsayer, Calchas, revealed an oracle that appeased Artemis, so that the Achaean fleet could sail.

In Euripides ’ Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon is told by Calchas that in order for the winds to allow him to sail to Troy, Agamemnon must sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis.

Calchas presides at the sacrifice of Iphigeneia in a peristyle fresco from Pompeii.

In Sophocles ' Ajax, Calchas delivers a prophecy to Teucer suggesting that the protagonist will die if he leaves his tent before the day is out.

Calchas also plays a role in Quintus of Smyrna ' Posthomerica.

Calchas said that if they were brief, they could convince Achilles to fight.

In medieval and later versions of the myth, Calchas is portrayed as a Trojan defector and the father of Chryseis, now called Cressida.

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