Oct 5, 2023 · Calchas played a key role in a few episodes of the Trojan War, though his advice often caused him to clash with Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army. It was Calchas who advised Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia at Aulis and who, much later, revealed the cause of the plague ravaging the Greek camp at Troy.

Jun 7, 2023 · A few Homeric passages have been interpreted as oblique allusions to the sacrifice of Iphigenia; see, for example, Iliad 1.105–8, where Agamemnon accuses Calchas of having given him evil prophecies on multiple occasions. ↩; Hesiod, Catalogue of Women frag. 23a.17–24 Merkelbach-West. ↩; Euripides, Electra 1023. ↩

May 8, 2023 · At one critical moment in the battle, when the Achaeans seemed near defeat at the hands of the attacking Trojans, Poseidon raced to the battlefield and assumed the form of the prophet Calchas. He did so in order to avoid the detection of Zeus, who had ordered the gods to stay out of the affair.

Argument The Fourth Battle Continued, in which Neptune Assists the Greeks: The Acts of Idomeneus. Neptune, concerned for the loss of the Grecians, upon seeing the fortification forced by Hector, (who had entered the gate near the station of the Ajaces,) assumes the shape of Calchas, and inspires those heroes to oppose him: then, in the form of one of the generals, encourages the other Greeks ...

Jul 12, 2023 · The prophet Calchas soon revealed the reason: Agamemnon had offended the goddess Artemis (either by killing one of her sacred deer, boasting that he was a better hunter than she, or simply happening to be the future conqueror of Artemis’ beloved Troy). In order to placate her, Agamemnon was ordered to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia ...

May 24, 2023 · Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, was a princess of Mycenae. During the Trojan War, Artemis demanded Iphigenia as a sacrifice in exchange for a wind to blow the Greek ships to Troy.

Then Calchas bade our host for flight And hope no conquest from the tedious war, Till first they sail’d for Greece; with pray’rs besought Her injur’d pow’r, and better omens brought. And now their navy plows the wat’ry main, Yet soon expect it on your shores again, With Pallas pleas’d; as Calchas did ordain.

May 24, 2023 · Overview. Astyanax (also called Scamandrius) was the son of Hector and Andromache, a prince and princess of Troy.

Mar 8, 2023 · The Agamemnon is a tragedy composed by Aeschylus around 458 BCE. In the play, the Greek warrior Agamemnon returns home after conquering Troy, only to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra.

Jul 31, 2023 · Eventually, the Greek prophet Calchas revealed that the plague had been caused by Agamemnon’s refusal to release Chryses’ daughter. When Achilles learned of this, he publicly demanded that Agamemnon return the girl to her father. Agamemnon finally agreed to do so, but said that he would take Achilles’ slave girl Briseis as compensation.