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Philinnion

Imadziwikanso kuti: Philinnion and Machates, the Bride of Amphipolis

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

Amenyane!
Inalembedwa koyamba
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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
Kochokera
Ancient Greek
Greece
Chimayambitsa
Sizinafotokozedwe
She says only that her visit was permitted by divine will.
Momwe umasandukira zombie
A young woman of Amphipolis who died about six months after her wedding.
Momwe imayendera
Zimasiyana
Leaves her tomb at night in bodily form, eats, drinks and sleeps with a guest in her parents' house, and is gone by day.
Nzeru
Wochenjera
Malo ofooka
  • 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

Inaoneka liti koyamba?

Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in the reign of Philip II of Macedon

zolemba za kumunda

Zimene magwero akunena

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

Ukanatha kuithawa?

Gulu la liwiro malinga ndi momwe magwero amaifotokozera (zimasiyana), osati muyeso.

Iwe, ukuyenda pafupifupi 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Iwe, ukuthamanga pang'onopang'ono pafupifupi 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Philinnion pafupifupi 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Munthu wamkulu wamphamvu akuthamanga kwambiri pafupifupi 24 km/h (15 mph)
Woyendetsa njinga wothamanga pafupifupi 37 km/h (23 mph)

Magwero

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

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