We’re Relearning What Pandemics Do to a Society
But history also reveals that the aftershocks of pandemics can linger for far longer than five years. Signs suggest our ...
Time1mon
Medicine: Plague No. 1
In the summer of 430 B. C. a plague which later historians took for typhus killed 300 Athenian knights, 45,000 Athenian citizens, 10,000 Athenian freemen. Survivors lost fingers, toes, eyesight ...
Greek Reporter10d
The Ancient Wine Cup Belonging to Athenian Statesman Pericles
A wine cup believed to belong to ancient Greek politician Pericles, discovered in 2014, is the highlight of the Epigraphical ...
PBS8y
Pericles on his deathbed from The Greeks documentary
One of the victims of the plague that swept Athens in 430 BC was Pericles himself. According to the historian Thucydides: '...The plague seized Pericles, not with sharp and violent fits ...
PBS3y
The Long Death of Pericles
One of the victims of the plague that swept Athens in 430 BC was Pericles himself. According to the historian Thucydides: '...The plague seized Pericles, not with sharp and violent fits ...