Location Roman Empire Even the best Ancient Greek temples dedicated to the Goddess Athena couldn't save them from this plague. In 430 BCE, as Sparta laid siege to Athens, a mysterious and brutal ...

Past outbreaks offer clues. How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause remains a mystery The Plague of Athens killed tens ...

As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426. The dead included Pericles, the populist leader who had turned Athens into an imperial power. The Peloponnesian War ...

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...

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 ...

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 ...