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Philinnion

Maqaa biraa: 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

Lolsiisi
Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame
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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
Ka'umsa
Ancient Greek
Giriik
Maaltu isa fida
Gonkumaa hin ibsamne
She says only that her visit was permitted by divine will.
Akkamitti isa taata
A young woman of Amphipolis who died about six months after her wedding.
Akkamitti sochoo'a
Garagara
Leaves her tomb at night in bodily form, eats, drinks and sleeps with a guest in her parents' house, and is gone by day.
Beekumsa
Qaroo
Bakkeewwan laafoo
  • 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

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

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

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

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

Fiigdee isa jalaa ba'uu dandeessaa?

Sadarkaa saffisaa akkaataa maddoonni itti ibsan irraa (garagara), safara miti.

Ati, deemaa gara 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ati, suuta fiigaa gara 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Philinnion gara 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ga'eessa qaamaan jabaa kan ariitiin fiigu gara 24 km/h (15 mph)
Saayikilii oofaa ariifataa gara 37 km/h (23 mph)

Maddoota

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

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