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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

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Buplagus
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIyarhuqaIhlabathi lamandulo

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

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the event is set after the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC
Imvelaphi
Ancient Greek / Roman
IGrisi
Oko kuyibangelayo
Okunye
The story presents his rising as a warning from Zeus to the victorious Romans.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A Syrian cavalry commander of King Antiochus, killed with twelve wounds.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyarhuqa
Stands up from among the corpses on the battlefield at midday, walks to the Roman camp and speaks in a faint voice.
Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • he dies again as soon as he has spoken
  • cremation and burial, with purification of the camp

Yavela nini okokuqala?

Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje150

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

amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

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

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Udidi lwesantya ngokwendlela imithombo eyichaza ngayo (iyarhuqa), asingomlinganiselo.

Bouplagos malunga ne-3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Wena, uhamba malunga ne-5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ujoga malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umntu omdala osempilweni ebaleka ngamandla malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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