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    Age. Calchas, a seer in the service of the army before Troy, is portrayed as a skilled augur, Greek ionópolos ('bird-savant'): "as an augur, Calchas had...
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  • Calchas is a genus of scorpions in the family Iuridae. At least four species in Calchas are described. Calchas anlasi Yagmur, Soleglad, Fet & Kovarik,...
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    Cogia calchas, the mimosa skipper, is a Nearctic species of dicot skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. "Cogia calchas Report". Integrated Taxonomic...
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    acting upon the winds, so that Agamemnon's fleet cannot sail to Troy. Calchas the seer tells Agamemnon that to appease Artemis, he must sacrifice his...
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    Calchas and the other heroes on their way home from Troy came upon the seer Mopsus in Colophon, the two competed in their mantic qualities. Calchas couldn't...
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  • Calcha "K" is a locality in the Potosí Department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia. Calcha "K" is the central place of the...
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    immortality through poetry. Furthermore, when Achilles was nine years old, Calchas had prophesied that Troy could not again fall without his help. A number...
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  • that ensues, Artemis' sacred deer is accidentally killed. This angers Calchas (Dimitris Aronis), the high priest of Artemis' temple, who delivers an...
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    chooses Troilus. He is then killed by Calchas with a knife in the back. Diomedes sends his body back to Priam with Calchas in chains. It is now the Greeks who...
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    indigenous practice of divining by bird signs, familiar in the figure of Calchas, the bird-diviner to Agamemnon, who led the army (Iliad I.69), was largely...
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