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Bouplagos

Detto anche: Buplagus
Folklore e mitiNon mortoArrancaMondo antico

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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Prima attestazione
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC
Origine
Ancient Greek / Roman
Grecia
Cosa lo causa
Altro
The story presents his rising as a warning from Zeus to the victorious Romans.
Come lo si diventa
A Syrian cavalry commander of King Antiochus, killed with twelve wounds.
Come si muove
Arranca
Stands up from among the corpses on the battlefield at midday, walks to the Roman camp and speaks in a faint voice.
Intelligenza
Un po' di intelligenza
Punti deboli
  • he dies again as soon as he has spoken
  • cremation and burial, with purification of the camp

Quando è comparso per la prima volta?

Mondo antico
Medioevo
Dal 1500 al 1899
Dal 1900 al 1967
Dal 1968 al 1999
Dal 2000 al 2009
Dal 2010 a oggi
150

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

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

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

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Classe di velocità dalla descrizione delle fonti (arranca), non una misura.

Bouplagos circa 3 km/h
Tu, che cammini circa 5 km/h
Tu, che corri circa 10 km/h
Un adulto allenato in sprint circa 24 km/h
Un ciclista veloce circa 37 km/h

Fonti

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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Folklore delle stesse terre

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

Stessa epoca: Mondo antico

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