Pausanias' Description of Greece

Calchas

First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 43

Life events

  • Artemis substituted a doe for Iphigenia's sacrifice.(Book 9 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Aulis)
    • With: Iphigenia Artemis
    • “when the Greeks in accordance with the oracle of Calchas were about to sacrifice Iphigenia, the goddess caused a doe to be sacrificed instead.”

Book 1 · Chapter 43

  • with Agamemnon (interaction) “when he went to Calchas, a native of the place, to persuade him to join the expedition to Ilium.”

Book 9 · Chapter 19

  • with Iphigenia (Calchas's oracle directed the sacrifice.) “when the Greeks in accordance with the oracle of Calchas were about to sacrifice Iphigenia”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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