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Calchas was a Seer who was bested by Mopsus in a contest over who was the more powerful.

Calchas was a seer featured in Homer's Iliad, famous for correctly predicting many events of the Trojan War. Upon being bested in a contest of soothsaying by Mopsus, he killed himself in shame.^[1]

Divination
Professors: Sybill Trelawney · Firenze
Known Seers: Calchas · Cassandra Vablatsky · Cassandra Trelawney · Inigo Imago · Mopsus · Professor Mopsus · Unidentified female Seer · Unidentified male Seer
Textbooks: The Dream Oracle · Unfogging the Future
Methods: Astrology · Cartomancy · Tarot cards · Crystal-gazing · Crystal ball · Dream interpretation · Fire-omens · Heptomology · Palmistry · Ornithomancy · Tessomancy
Divination at Hogwarts: Divination (class) · Divination Classroom · Divination staircase · Sybill Trelawney's office · Classroom 11

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 ==Behind the scenes==
-*Calchas was a seer featured in Homer's ''Iliad'', famous for correctly predicting many events of the Trojan War. Upon being bested in a contest of soothsaying by Mopsus, he killed himself in shame. <ref>[[Wikipedia:Calchas|Calchas]] at [[Wikipedia:Main Page|Wikipedia]]</ref>
+*Calchas was a seer featured in Homer's ''Iliad'', famous for correctly predicting many events of the Trojan War. Upon being bested in a contest of soothsaying by Mopsus, he killed himself in shame.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Calchas|Calchas]] at [[Wikipedia:Main Page|Wikipedia]]</ref>
 ==Appearances==
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 ==Notes and references==
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