Editing Calchas (section)

==Death==
Calchas died of shame at [[Colophon (city)|Colophon]] in Asia Minor shortly after the [[Trojan War]] (as told in the Cyclic ''[[Nostoi]]'' and ''[[Melampodia]]''): the prophet [[Mopsus]] beat him in a contest of soothsaying,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Apollodorus, Epitome, book E, chapter 6, section 4 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%20Epit.%20E.6.4&lang=original |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> although [[Strabo]]<ref>[[Strabo]]. ''Geography'', 6.3.9.</ref> placed an oracle of Calchas on [[Monte Gargano]] in [[Magna Graecia]].

It is also said that Calchas [[died of laughter]] when he thought another seer had incorrectly predicted his death. This seer had foretold Calchas would never drink from the wine produced from vines he had planted himself; Calchas made the wine, but holding the cup he died of laughter, before he could inform them they had drunk it the previous night.<ref>[[Maurus Servius Honoratus]], ''Commentary on the Eclogues of Vergil'' 6.72</ref>

In medieval and later versions of the myth, Calchas is portrayed as a Trojan defector and the father of Chryseis, now called [[Cressida]].

Calchas is a character in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]''.