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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

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Buplagus
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatDafay doxantuÀddina su yàgg

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

Xeexal ko
Jëkk a bindu
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Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC
Cosaan
Ancient Greek / Roman
Gërees
Lan moo ko waral
Yeneen
The story presents his rising as a warning from Zeus to the victorious Romans.
Naka ngay doone benn
A Syrian cavalry commander of King Antiochus, killed with twelve wounds.
Naka lay yëngoo
Dafay doxantu
Stands up from among the corpses on the battlefield at midday, walks to the Roman camp and speaks in a faint voice.
Xel
Am na tuuti xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • he dies again as soon as he has spoken
  • cremation and burial, with purification of the camp

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàggDiggu jamono1500 ba 18991900 ba 19671968 ba 19992000 ba 20092010 ba tey150

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

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Li sours yi wax

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

Ndax mën nga ko raw ci daw?

Gaawaay bi jóge ci ni sours yi ko melale (dafay doxantu), du natt.

Bouplagos lu tollu ci 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Yow, ci dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Yow, ci daw ndànk lu tollu ci 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Mag bu am doole buy daw lu gaaw lool lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ku gaaw ci welo lu tollu ci 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sours yi

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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