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 Greek mythology, Calchas ( Κάλχας, possibly meaning " bronze-man "), son of Thestor, was an Argive seer, with a gift for interpreting the flight of birds that he received of Apollo: " as an augur, Calchas had no rival in the camp ".

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.

Indeed, Ulixes does not stop his malicious gossiping until he causes Sinon's ruin with the help of the seer Calchas.

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

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.

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

After consulting the seer Calchas, the Greek leaders learn that this is no mere meteorological abnormality but rather the will of the goddess Artemis, who is withholding the winds because Agamemnon has caused her offense.

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( above ), was among the refugees at Clarus, where he challenged Mopsus, the charismatic son of Manto and Rhacius, and superseded him as seer of the oracular site, and there he eventually died ( Argonautica1. 308 ; Ovid Metamorphoses 1. 516 and 11. 413 ; Strabo 14. 4. 3 ).

" Modern scholars generally consider only one of the attributed epigrams to be unquestionably authentic ( an inscription for the seer Megistius quoted by Herodotus ), which places in doubt even some of the most famous examples, such as the one to the Spartans at Thermopylae, quoted in the introduction.

When Kim awakens the next morning, she has not only the power of a seer ( which was born in her ), but also all of Ysanne's deep knowledge of Fionavar to help her interpret what she sees.

As the seer would later explain, a nightly visitor would have woken him only a day before the outbreak of war, with a message that his work was dedicated to God.

Taking advice from Oracle Jones ( Donald Pleasence ), a local guide and seer ( but only when under the influence of alcohol ), the populace arrange for a mass shipment, forty wagons full of whiskey, from the Wallingham Freighting Company.

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.

" Upon the Mother depend the winds, the ocean, the whole earth beneath the snowy seat of Olympus ; whenever she leaves the mountains and climbs to the great vault of heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronus, makes way, and all the other immortal gods likewise make way for the dread goddess ," the seer Mopsus tells Jason in Argonautica ; Jason climbed to the sanctuary high on Mount Dindymon to offer sacrifice and libations to placate the goddess, so that the Argonauts might continue on their way.

Why don ’ t we push it all the way until the patient is no longer a patient but a student, and further, not a seeker but a seer?

An Da Shealladh or " The two sights ," meaning normal sight, and the sight of the seer is the way Gaels refer to " second sight ", the involuntary ability of seeing the future or distant events.

In 1437, King James I of Scotland was approached by an Irish seer who was later identified as a banshee who foretold his murder at the instigation of the Earl of Atholl.

Michel de Nostredame ( 14 or 21 December 1503 – 2 July 1566 ), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide.

Saul's servant however, remarked that they happened to be near the town of Ramah, where a famous seer was located, and suggested that they should consult him first.

In 1 Samuel 9: 6-20, Samuel is seen as a local “ seer .” The Deuteronomistic Historians preserved this view of Samuel while contributing him as “ the first of prophets to articulate the failure of Israel to live up to its covenant with God .” For the Deuteronomistic Historians, Samuel was extension of Moses and continuing Moses ’ function as a prophet, judge, and a priest which made historical Samuel uncertain.

In that encounter Zwide's mother Ntombazi, a Sangoma ( Zulu seer or shaman ), was killed by Shaka.

This dream was interpreted by the seer Aesacus as a foretelling of the downfall of Troy, and he declared that the child would be the ruin of his homeland.

But the seer was not fooled.

After the meeting Olaf was attacked by a group of mutineers, and what the seer had foretold happened.

In Greek mythology, Phineus (, ) was a king of Thrace and seer who appears in accounts of Argonauts ' voyage.

In Greek mythology, Polyeidos or Polyidus ( Greek, " seeing many things "), son of Coeranus, was a famous seer from Corinth.

Polyeidos was a descendant of another renowned seer, Melampus.

As a seer, " Tiresias " was " a common title for soothsayers throughout Greek legendary history " ( Graves 1960, 105. 5 ).

Amphiaraus was a seer, and greatly honored in his time.

The healing and fortune-telling aspect of Amphiaraus came from his ancestry: he was related to the great seer Melampus.

Mopsus, a celebrated seer and diviner, was the son of Manto, daughter of the mythic seer Tiresias, and of Rhacius of Caria or of Apollo himself, the oracular god.

Mopsus ( and perhaps a tradition of his heirs, like the Melampodidae, the Iamidae from Olympia or the Eumolpidae at Eleusis ) officiated at the altars of Apollo at Klaros, which he founded ; at Klaros the tradition was that he had been the son of a daughter of the seer Teiresias named Manto, literally " seeress ".

Mopsus, son of Ampyx and a nymph ( sometimes named as Chloris ), born at Titaressa in Thessaly, was also a seer and augur.

* Ampyx or Ampycus was a seer, the son of Elatus the Lapith chieftain.

With his wife Manto, daughter of the seer Teiresias, he was the father of Mopsus, a renowned seer.

Asteria, daughter of Coronus, and Apollo were possible parents of the seer Idmon.

Chloris, daughter of Orchomenus, married the seer Ampyx ( son of Elatus ), with whom she had a child Mopsus who also became a renowned seer and would later join the Argonauts.

* Arisbe ( daughter of Merops ), an early wife of King Priam of Troy, also daughter of the seer Merops of Percote

Several variants are known ; Fauna is daughter, wife or sister of Faunus ( also named Faunus Fatuus, meaning Faunus " the foolish ", or seer ).

The founding myth of Clarus, however, connects the city with the Epigoni, fleeing after they had sacked the Mycenaean citadel of Thebes ; among them was Manto, daughter of the seer Tiresias and herself a seer.

Rishyasringa ( Sanskrit: ऋष ् यश ृं ग, Kannada: ಋಷ ್ ಯಶ ೃಂ ಗ, IAST: meaning ' deer-horned '; Pali: Isisiṅga ; Thai: Kalaikot ; Tamil: Kalaikottu-muni ) or () was a boy born with the horns of a deer in Hindu-Buddhist mythology, who became a seer and was seduced by a King's daughter, which had various results according to the variations in the story.