Calchas
quoted 4 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Calchas the figure
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
1 quoted · 3 reported
3 neutral 1 refutedin the voice of Agamemnon 1 , Iphigenia 1 , Menelaus 1 , Messenger 1
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in the voice of Agamemnon
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Iphigenia in Aulis Euripides 2 neutral 1 refuted 3 citations · 6 passages
Calchas's oracle is reported in indirect speech by Agamemnon as the pronouncement that set the whole crisis in motion.
In our perplexity, we asked Calchas, the seer, and he answered that we should sacrifice my own child Iphigenia to Artemis, whose home is in this land, and we would sail and sack the Phrygians’ capital.
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in the voice of Iphigenia
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Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation
Iphigenia reports Calchas's prophetic speech as an embedded quotation within her own narration.
But when he met with dreadful winds that would not let him sail, he went to burnt sacrifices, and Calchas had this to say:
iphigenia in tauris ¶
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