Philinnion

Saukts arī par: 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

⚔️ Cīnīties ar to

Pirmais pieraksts

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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

Izcelsme

Ancient Greek

Grieķija

Kas to izraisa

Nekad nav izskaidrots

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

Kā tu tāds kļūsti

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

Kā tas kustas

Atšķiras

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

Inteliģence

Gudrs

Vājās vietas

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