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Philinnion

Detto anche: Philinnion and Machates, the Bride of Amphipolis
Folklore e mitiNon mortoVariaMondo antico

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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Prima attestazione
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in the reign of Philip II of Macedon
Origine
Ancient Greek
Grecia
Cosa lo causa
Mai spiegato
She says only that her visit was permitted by divine will.
Come lo si diventa
A young woman of Amphipolis who died about six months after her wedding.
Come si muove
Varia
Leaves her tomb at night in bodily form, eats, drinks and sleeps with a guest in her parents' house, and is gone by day.
Intelligenza
Furbo
Punti deboli
  • 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

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

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

Fonti

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

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