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

Era ayitibwa: Buplagus
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuYeekululaEnsi ey'edda

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

Lwanyisa
Yasooka okuwandiikibwa
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC
Gy'ava
Ancient Greek / Roman
Buyonaani
Ekikireeta
Ebirala
The story presents his rising as a warning from Zeus to the victorious Romans.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
A Syrian cavalry commander of King Antiochus, killed with twelve wounds.
Engeri gy'atambulamu
Yeekulula
Stands up from among the corpses on the battlefield at midday, walks to the Roman camp and speaks in a faint voice.
Amagezi
Amagezi matono
Ebifo ebinafu
  • he dies again as soon as he has spoken
  • cremation and burial, with purification of the camp

Yasooka ddi okulabika?

Ensi ey'eddaEmirembe egya wakati1500 okutuuka 18991900 okutuuka 19671968 okutuuka 19992000 okutuuka 20092010 okutuuka leero150

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

ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

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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Omutendera gw'embiro okusinziira ku ngeri ensibuko gye zimunnyonnyolamu (yeekulula), si kipimo.

Bouplagos nga 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Ggwe, ng'otambula nga 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ggwe, ng'odduka mpola nga 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Omuntu omukulu omugumu ng'adduka nnyo nga 24 km/h (15 mph)
Omuvuzi wa ggaali ow'embiro nga 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ensibuko

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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