Calchas
Family: Troy · Role: seer · First appears: Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene III
Life events
- Calchas secures an agreement to exchange Antenor for Cressid.(Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene III)
- With: Cressida
- “You have a Trojan prisoner call’d Antenor, Yesterday took; Troy holds him very dear. Oft have you—often have you thanks therefore— Desir’d my Cressid in right great exchange, Whom Troy hath still denied; but this Antenor, I know, is such a wrest in their affairs That their negotiations all must slack Wanting his manage; and they will almost Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam, In change of him. Let him be sent, great Princes, And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence Shall quite strike off all service I have done In most accepted pain. AGAMEMNON. Let Diomedes bear him, And bring us Cressid hither. Calchas shall have What he requests of us.”
Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene III
- child: Cressida “You have a Trojan prisoner call’d Antenor, Yesterday took; Troy holds him very dear. Oft have you—often have you thanks therefore— Desir’d my Cressid in right great exchange, Whom Troy hath still denied; but this Antenor, I know, is such a wrest in their affairs That their negotiations all must slack Wanting his manage; and they will almost Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam, In change of him. Let him be sent, great Princes, And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence Shall quite strike off all service I have done In most accepted pain.”
Troilus and Cressida · Act IV, Scene V
- child: Cressida “AGAMEMNON. Is not yond Diomed, with Calchas’ daughter? ULYSSES. ’Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait: He rises on the toe. That spirit of his In aspiration lifts him from the earth. Enter Diomedes and Cressida. AGAMEMNON. Is this the Lady Cressid? DIOMEDES. Even she.”
Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene II
- child: Cressida (Cressida is identified as Calchas’s daughter by the dialogue and her subsequent entrance.) “DIOMEDES. Diomed. Calchas, I think. Where’s your daughter? CALCHAS. [Within.] She comes to you. Enter Troilus and Ulysses, at a distance; after them Thersites. ULYSSES. Stand where the torch may not discover us. Enter Cressida.”
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