Philinnion

Akpọkwa ya: Philinnion and Machates, the Bride of Amphipolis

Akụkọ ifo na akụkọ ọdịnalaNwụrụ anwụDị iche icheỤwa oge ochie

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

⚔️ Mee ha lụọ ọgụ

Mgbe e dere ya nke mbụ

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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

Mmalite

Ancient Greek

Greece

Ihe na-akpata ya

A kọwabeghị ya mgbe ọbụla

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

Otu i si abụrụ otu

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

Otu o si agagharị

Dị iche iche

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

Ọgụgụ isi

Nwere ọgụgụ isi

Ebe adịghị ike

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