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Identification and Location. As the group appellati… Calchas , Calchas in Homer's Iliad, the seer of the Greek forces at the siege of Troy. Livius Andronicus , c. 280 b.c.e.–c. 204 b.c.e.
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The Originator of Latin Poetry.
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Polemon of Ilium°