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Philinnion

También llamado: Philinnion and Machates, the Bride of Amphipolis
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Philinnion is the best-preserved walking-corpse story from classical antiquity. Recorded by Hadrian's freedman Phlegon, it tells of a dead bride who rises physically from her family vault to spend three nights with a house guest. When she is discovered she collapses as a corpse, and the city, on a seer's advice, burns the body beyond its borders and purifies itself. The empty tomb and the civic cremation show that Greeks imagined the returning dead as bodies, and dealt with them accordingly.1

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Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in the reign of Philip II of Macedon
Origen
Ancient Greek
Grecia
Qué lo causa
Nunca explicado
She says only that her visit was permitted by divine will.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A young woman of Amphipolis who died about six months after her wedding.
Cómo se mueve
Varía
Leaves her tomb at night in bodily form, eats, drinks and sleeps with a guest in her parents' house, and is gone by day.
Inteligencia
Listo
Puntos débiles
  • being seen by her parents, at which she dies a second time
  • burning the body outside the city boundary
  • sacrifices to Hermes Chthonios and the Eumenides and purification of the temples

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Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in the reign of Philip II of Macedon

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Qué dicen las fuentes

1

The account is framed as an official's letter asking whether the king should be told1

2

She gave her lover Machates a gold ring and left her breast-band behind1

3

Her tomb was opened and found empty except for an iron ring and a gilt cup that Machates had given her1

4

Her lover killed himself afterwards1

5

Goethe used the story for 'The Bride of Corinth' (1797)1

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

Fuentes

  1. An Ancient Ghost Story: Philinnion & Machates - World History Encyclopedia

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