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Illustration of Bouplagos
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Bouplagos

Gape e bidiwa: Buplagus
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE a kgokgoetsaLefatshe la bogologolo

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

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC
Tshimologo
Ancient Greek / Roman
Gerika
Se se e bakang
Tse dingwe
The story presents his rising as a warning from Zeus to the victorious Romans.
O fetoga yone jang
A Syrian cavalry commander of King Antiochus, killed with twelve wounds.
E tsamaya jang
E a kgokgoetsa
Stands up from among the corpses on the battlefield at midday, walks to the Roman camp and speaks in a faint voice.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • he dies again as soon as he has spoken
  • cremation and burial, with purification of the camp

E tlhagile la ntlha leng?

Lefatshe la bogologoloMotlha wa Bogare1500 go ya go 18991900 go ya go 19671968 go ya go 19992000 go ya go 20092010 go fitlha gompieno150

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

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

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

A o ka e siela kgakala?

Setlhopha sa bonako go ya ka fa metswedi e e tlhalosang ka teng (e a kgokgoetsa), e seng tekanyo.

Bouplagos mo e ka nnang 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Wena, o tsamaya mo e ka nnang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o taboga ka iketlo mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho yo mogolo yo o itekanetseng a siana thata mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele yo o bonako mo e ka nnang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Metswedi

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

Erichtho's reanimated soldierRoman (literary), 61VrykolakasGreek, 1645PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701PolykritosAncient Greek, 150

Motlha o o tshwanang: Lefatshe la bogologolo

Ishtar's army of the deadMesopotamian (Akkadian), 1000 pele ga KereseteLugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450
Fepa letshwititiTlogela madi a tebogo