Calchas

I have written a play [Footnote: "Calchas," later called "Swansong."] on four sheets of paper.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

It starts when Calchas is asked to prophesy how to stop the plague, and says, more or less, “if my prophesy upsets someone powerful, who will defend me?”

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Talthybius-for his this duty was-and bade the host refrain from word or deed; and Calchas, the seer, drawing a sharp sword from out its scabbard laid it in a basket of beaten gold, crowning the maiden's head the while.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

But after the army was gathered and come together, we still remained at Aulis weather-bound; and Calchas, the seer, bade us in our perplexity sacrifice my own begotten child Iphigenia to

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Achaeans we alone know the real truth, Calchas, Odysseus, Menelaus and myself; but that which I then decided wrongly, I now rightly countermand again in this scroll, which thou, old man, hast found me opening and resealing beneath the shade of night.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Troy, unless I offer thee according to the word of Calchas the seer.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Bethink thee then, will he not arise among the Argives and tell them the oracles that Calchas delivered, saying of me that I undertook to offer Artemis a victim, and after all am proving false?

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

But I will go, in spite of all, with Calchas the priest, to inquire the goddess's good pleasure, fraught with ill-luck as it is to me, and with trouble to Hellas.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Next when Calchas bade thee offer thy daughter in sacrifice to Artemis, declaring that the Danai should then sail, thou wert overjoyed, and didst gladly undertake to offer the maid, and of thine own accord-never allege compulsion!

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Calchas, the seer, shall rue beginning the sacrifice with his barley-meal and lustral water.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008