Calchas Flashcards
What son of thestor…
Calchas
Who was calchas a priest of?
Artemis
Who predicted when Achilles was only nine years old that Troy could not be
taken without his aid?
Calchas
Asnake with a blood-red back glided from beneath the altar,
climbed a plane tree that overhung the spring, and devoured a sparrow with
her eight babies…
Calchas
Who had learned early in
his career that he was fated to die when he met a diviner better than himself?
Calchas
Where did Calchas go after the trojan war?
Colophon
What grandson of Tiresias?
Mopsus
What seer did Calchas run into in Colophon
Mopsus
What man asked the number of figs on a particularly prolific wild fig tree?
Calchas
What did calchas ask of Mopsus?
the number of figs on a particularly prolific wild fig tree
Replying, “Ten thousand, one bushel,
and a fig left over….
Mopsus
What did Mopsus ask Calchas?
how many pigs a certain pregnant sow was carrying
Replying, “Wrong! There are nine, they are all male, and they will be born tomorrow at the sixth
hour….
Mopsus
What seer, who died of a broken heart…
calchas
Where was Calchas buried?
Notium
Who went to Colophon to bury Teiresias?
Calchas
