Calchas
human_specialist earth Greek single tradition · 3
Calchas is a seer who sees an omen of a hawk and dove, and suggests that the Greeks try a new strategy to take Troy.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Trojan War era.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Epeios, Tritogeneia, Cassandra, Polydamas, Philoctetes, The Seasons, Neoptolemus, Epeüs, Sinon, Nestor, The Muses, Laocoön, Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Odysseus, Aeneas, Helen, Oenone, Hecuba, Artemis (Diana), Erinyes, Aphrodite, Hera, Hermes, Cronus, Prometheus, Hephaestus, Achilles, Thetis, Themis, Paris, Éris
Mentioned by
- Zeus
- Athena
- Apollo
- Odysseus
- Aeneas
- Helen
- Oenone
- Hecuba
- Artemis (Diana)
- Erinyes
- Aphrodite
- Hera
- Hermes
- Cronus
- Prometheus
- Hephaestus
and 5 more
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“Prompted by an omen, the seer Calchas advises the Greeks to resort to trickery.”
#40939 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“it is Menelaus who convinces Agamemnon to heed the seer Calchas's advice. After Agamemnon sends a message to Clytemnestra informing her of Iphigenia's supposed marriage, he immediately regrets his decision and tries to send another letter telling them not to come”
#42633 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Furthermore, when Achilles was nine years old, Calchas had prophesied that Troy could not again fall without his help.”
#42906 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat