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The Epidemic That Changed Athens: The Plague of Pericles
In 430 BCE, as Athens was locked in a brutal war with Sparta, a mysterious disease swept through the city, killing perhaps a third of its population and reshaping the course of the Peloponnesian War. This episode dives into the Plague of Athens as described by the historian Thucydides, who survived it himself. We explore the symptoms, the social breakdown it caused, and its devastating impact on leadership—especially the death of Pericles, who had guided Athens for decades. Lucas and Luna discuss modern scientific attempts to identify the pathogen (typhoid fever? Ebola? something else?), the…
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