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In Greek mythology, Calchas (; , possibly meaning "bronze-man"), son of Thestor, was an Argive seer, with a gift for interpreting the flight of birds that he received of Apollo: "as an augur, Calchas had no rival in the camp".〔Homer. ''Iliad'', Book I (E.V. Rieu translation).〕 He also interpreted the entrails of the enemy during the tide of battle.〔Quintus of Smyrna. ''Posthomerica'', Book IX (Alan James translation).〕 ==Career== It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended. The episode was related at length in the lost ''Cypria'', of the Epic Cycle. He also states that Troy will be sacked on the tenth year of the war.〔Quintus of Smyrna. ''Posthomerica'', Book VIII (Alan James translation).〕 In the ''Iliad'', Calchas tells the Greeks that the captive Chryseis must be returned to her father Chryses in order to get Apollo to stop the plague he has sent as a punishment: this triggered the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the main theme of the ''Iliad''. In Sophocles' ''Ajax'', Calchas delivers a prophecy to Teucer suggesting that the protagonist will die if he leaves his tent before the day is out. Calchas also plays a role in Quintus of Smyrna's ''Posthomerica''. Calchas said that if they were brief, they could convince Achilles to fight. It is he rather than Helenus (as suggested in Sophocles' ''Philoctetes'') that predicts that Troy will only fall once the Argives are able to recruit Philoctetes.〔Quintus of Smyrna. ''Posthomerica'', Book IX (Alan James translation).〕 It is by his advice that they halt the battle, even though Neoptolemus is slaughtering the Trojans. He also tells the Argives that the city is more easily taken by strategy than by force. He endorses Odysseus' suggestion that the Trojan Horse will effectively infiltrate the Trojans. He also foresees that Aeneas will survive the battle and found the city, and tells the Argives that they will not kill him. He did not join the Argives when they boarded the ships, as he foresaw the impending doom of the Kapherean Rocks.〔Quintus of Smyrna. ''Posthomerica'', Book XIV (Alan James translation).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calchas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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