# Calchas — Ajax character guide

> Calchas in Ajax by Sophocles.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0002-ajax

## Who they are

The Greek seer who prophesies Ajax's fate.

## Relationships

### [Ajax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ajax_se/characters/ajax)

_professional_

Calchas is the prophet whose dire predictions about Ajax's fate are relayed to him, creating a tense dynamic of foreknowledge and doom.

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