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Antonine Plague - Part 4: The Reckoning
When the first terror of the plague subsided, Rome faced a new ordeal: the slow violence of aftermath. The city’s survivors had to care for the sick, bury the dead, and keep fear from overwhelming daily life. Rome did not have emergency managers as we think of them now. Instead, the work fell to magistrates, relatives, doctors, priests, slaves, and neighbors.
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