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Polykritos

Er numnà: Polycritus the Aetolarch, Polykritos the Aitolian
Folclore e mitusNunmortCurraAntica

Polykritos is the cannibal revenant of Phlegon's Book of Marvels. A dead official walks into the citizens' assembly, demands his infant and, when refused, eats it in front of the crowd, impervious to their stones. The child's severed head delivers the oracle. It is a rare ancient story of a returned corpse eating human flesh, the act that defines the modern zombie.1

Al cumbat
Documentà l'emprima giada
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC
Origin
Ancient Greek
Grezia
Tge che chaschuna quai
Mai declerà
He returns at the moment the assembly debates the fate of his newborn child.
Co ch'ins daventa in
An Aetolian magistrate who died on the fourth night of his marriage.
Co ch'el sa mova
Curra
Appears suddenly in the public assembly dressed in black, speaks, then seizes his child and tears it apart.
Intelligenza
Intelligent
Puncts flaivels
  • none: stones thrown by the crowd did not hurt him, and he vanished of his own accord

Cura è el cumparì l'emprima giada?

AnticaTemp medieval1500 fin 18991900 fin 19671968 fin 19992000 fin 20092010 fin oz150

Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC

notizias da champ

Tge che las funtaunas din

1

His widow bore a child with both male and female genitals, which seers took as an omen1

2

He told the citizens his body was dead but his goodwill towards them was alive1

3

When they hesitated to hand over the child he devoured it, leaving only the head1

4

The head then spoke a prophecy of war and plague1

5

The Aetolians sent their families away and suffered heavy losses in battle the next year1

Fissas ti pli svelt?

Classa da sveltezza tenor la descripziun en las funtaunas (curra), betg ina mesiraziun.

Ti, a pe var 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, a la currida var 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
In creschì sportiv en sprint var 24 km/h (15 mph)
Polykritos var 24 km/h (15 mph)
In ciclist svelt var 37 km/h (23 mph)

Funtaunas

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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Medema epoca: Antica

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