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Bouplagos

También llamado: Buplagus
Folclore y mitosNo muertoSe arrastraMundo antiguo

Bouplagos is a dead soldier who gets up on the battlefield in Phlegon's Book of Marvels. After the Roman victory at Thermopylae he rises with his wounds, walks into the enemy camp, delivers an oracle and falls dead for good. The Romans burn him and purify the army. The scene of a battlefield corpse rising among the looters is a recognisable ancestor of later war-zombie imagery.1

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Primer registro
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC
Origen
Ancient Greek / Roman
Grecia
Qué lo causa
Otro
The story presents his rising as a warning from Zeus to the victorious Romans.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A Syrian cavalry commander of King Antiochus, killed with twelve wounds.
Cómo se mueve
Se arrastra
Stands up from among the corpses on the battlefield at midday, walks to the Roman camp and speaks in a faint voice.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • he dies again as soon as he has spoken
  • cremation and burial, with purification of the camp

¿Cuándo apareció por primera vez?

Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
150

Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

1

He rose while the Romans were stripping the enemy dead1

2

He recited verses ordering them to stop despoiling the fallen1

3

He foretold that a bold people would one day end Roman rule1

4

The generals sacrificed to Zeus the Averter and consulted Delphi1

5

In the sequel a Roman general is eaten by a red wolf and his severed head prophesies1

¿Podrías huir de él?

Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (se arrastra), no una medición.

Bouplagos unos 3 km/h
Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h

Fuentes

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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Erichtho's reanimated soldierRoman (literary), 61VrykolakasGreek, 1645PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701PolykritosAncient Greek, 150

Misma época: Mundo antiguo

Ishtar's army of the deadMesopotamian (Akkadian), 1000 a. C.Lugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450