person
Calchas
also: Κάλχας
The Achaeans' chief seer, son of Thestor, who reveals that the plague on the camp is Apollo's anger over Chryseis, touching off the quarrel of Book 1; earlier read the omen at Aulis that the war would last ten years.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §1.59 Calchas
The Achaeans' chief seer, son of Thestor; he identifies Apollo's anger over Chryseis as the cause of the plague, setting off the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon that opens the poem.