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Calchas

also: Calchas

The seer of the Greek army at Troy in Homeric legend. Cicero (Orator 74) names him as the sorrowful figure in the painting of the sacrifice of Iphigenia by which the painter Timanthes graded the degrees of grief.

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Mentioned in 3 works (4 mentions)

On the Laws phil · 1 mention
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhet · 1 mention
On Divination phil · 2 mentions

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