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Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
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Bouplagos

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Buplagus
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐtwetwe ne nanTete wiase

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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Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
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Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC
Mfiase
Ancient Greek / Roman
Greece
Deɛ ɛde ba
Ɛfoforɔ
The story presents his rising as a warning from Zeus to the victorious Romans.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A Syrian cavalry commander of King Antiochus, killed with twelve wounds.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛtwetwe ne nan
Stands up from among the corpses on the battlefield at midday, walks to the Roman camp and speaks in a faint voice.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • he dies again as soon as he has spoken
  • cremation and burial, with purification of the camp

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ150

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

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

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

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛtwetwe ne nan), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Bouplagos bɛyɛ 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ɔpanin a ne ho yɛ den a ɔtu mmirika denden bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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Berɛ koro: Tete wiase

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