Bouplagos
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
- he dies again as soon as he has spoken
- cremation and burial, with purification of the camp
Wanneer verscheen hij voor het eerst?
150Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC
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He rose while the Romans were stripping the enemy dead1
He recited verses ordering them to stop despoiling the fallen1
He foretold that a bold people would one day end Roman rule1
The generals sacrificed to Zeus the Averter and consulted Delphi1
In the sequel a Roman general is eaten by a red wolf and his severed head prophesies1
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Erichtho's reanimated soldier
Vrykolakas
Philinnion
The corpse of Thelyphron
Vrykolakas of Mykonos
Polykritos
Ishtar's army of the dead
Lugnano child burial