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

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

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.

Alongside Amphimachus, Calchas, Leonteus and Polypoetes he traveled to Colophon, where Calchas died.

According to Apollodorus and Proclus, the mythical seer Calchas died at Colophon after the end of the Trojan War.

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

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( above ), was among the refugees at Clarus, where he challenged Mopsus, the charismatic son of Manto and Rhacius, and superseded him as seer of the oracular site, and there he eventually died ( Argonautica1. 308 ; Ovid Metamorphoses 1. 516 and 11. 413 ; Strabo 14. 4. 3 ).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

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.

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.

His final opera appearance was in 2000 at the Salzburg Festival as Calchas in La Belle Hélène.

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

When the Achaeans have been mustered a second time at Aulis, Agamemnon is persuaded by Calchas to sacrifice his daughter Iphigeneia to appease the goddess Artemis and obtain safe passage for the ships, after he offends her by killing a stag.

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

It was named after the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida ( as well as in tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and others ).

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.

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.

Criseyde, the daughter of the seer Calchas, lives alone in Troy after her father abandons the Trojans to help the Greeks.

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.

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

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 ).

* Calchas, a Trojan priest who is taking part with the Greeks

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.

As the camp goes to bed, Ulysses leads Troilus to the tent of Calchas, where the Trojan prince watches from hiding as Cressida agrees to become Diomedes's lover.

She is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Calchas a priestly defector to the Greeks.

* Calchas, a Trojan prophet who joins the Greeks

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.

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.

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

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.

Other Greeks, including the prophet Calchas, go by land to Kolophon, where Calchas dies and is buried.

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 confessed his inability to answer, whereupon Mopsus declared that she would be delivered on the morrow, and would bring forth ten young ones, of which only one would be a male.

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.

Lycophron writes that Podalirius was buried in Italy near the cenotaph of Calchas, but John Tzetzes accuses him of providing false information and defends the versions cited above.

All stood amazed: but Calchas, who perceived the truth, exclaimed, " Rejoice Pelasgian men, for we shall conquer ; Troy will fall ; although the toil of war must long continue -- so

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

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