Philinnion

Tuntud ka kui: 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

Päritolu

Ancient Greek

Kreeka

Mis seda põhjustab

Seletamata

She says only that her visit was permitted by divine will.

Kuidas selleks saadakse

A young woman of Amphipolis who died about six months after her wedding.

Kuidas see liigub

Varieerub

Leaves her tomb at night in bodily form, eats, drinks and sleeps with a guest in her parents' house, and is gone by day.

Intelligentsus

Nutikas

Nõrgad kohad

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