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Calchas

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Calchas

In Greek mythology, a visionary and interpreter of omens for the Greek expedition against Troy, responsible for recommending the sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father Agamemnon, as an atonement for an offence against the goddess Artemis.
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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.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
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.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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