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Illustration of Polykritos
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
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Polykritos

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Polycritus the Aetolarch, Polykritos the Aitolian
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIyabalekaIhlabathi lamandulo

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

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC
Imvelaphi
Ancient Greek
IGrisi
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ayizange icaciswe
He returns at the moment the assembly debates the fate of his newborn child.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
An Aetolian magistrate who died on the fourth night of his marriage.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyabaleka
Appears suddenly in the public assembly dressed in black, speaks, then seizes his child and tears it apart.
Ubukrelekrele
Ikrelekrele
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • none: stones thrown by the crowd did not hurt him, and he vanished of his own accord

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 story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC

amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

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

Ungayigqitha ngokubaleka?

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

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)
Polykritos 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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