Troy

Wolfgang Petersen

Petersen's war council keeps a Homeric prophet at Agamemnon's ear — Calchas as the voice that reads gods into strategy.

Iphigenia

Michalis Cacoyannis

At Aulis, Calchas names the goddess's price — Cacoyannis makes the seer's reading the hinge of the sacrifice.

Calchas

Thestor's son who foresaw Troy's fall and his own death at a wiser seer's hands — Homer's chief Achaean prophet.

Iliad

Homer

Calchas names Chryses' insult and Apollo's plague — the seer whose omens open the wrath and whose Colophon contest closes the cycle.