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CALCHAS , of See also:

Mycenae or See also:Megara, son of Thestor, the most famous soothsayer among the Greeks at the See also:time of the Trojan See also:war. He foretold the duration of the See also:siege of See also:Troy, and, when the See also:fleet was detained by adverse winds at See also:Aulis, he explained the cause and demanded the See also:sacrifice of See also:Iphigeneia. When the Greeks were visited with pestilence on See also:account of Chryseis, he disclosed the reasons of See also:Apollo's anger. It was he who suggested that See also:Neoptolemus and See also:Philoctetes should be fetched from See also:Scyros and See also:Lemnos to Troy, and he was one of those who advised the construction of the wooden See also:horse. When the Greeks, on their See also:journey See also:home after the fall of Troy, were overtaken by a See also:storm, Calchas is said to have been thrown ashore at See also:Colophon. According to another See also:story, he foresaw the storm and did not See also:attempt to return by See also:sea. It had been predicted that he should See also:die when he met his See also:superior in See also:divination; and the prophecy was fulfilled in the See also:person of See also:Mopsus, whom Calchas met in the See also:grove of the Clarian Apollo near Colophon. Having been beaten in a trial of soothsaying, Calchas died of chagrin or committed See also:suicide. He had a See also:temple and See also:oracle in See also:Apulia. See also:Ovid, Metam. xii. 18 If.; See also:Homer, Iliad i.-68, ii. 322 ; See also:Strabo vi. p.

284, xiv. p. 642.

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