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The Plague of Athens: How Disease Destroyed Pericles' Golden Age
In 430 BC, at the height of the Peloponnesian War, a mysterious plague swept through Athens, killing perhaps a third of its population and shattering the city's confidence. Lucas and Luna explore Thucydides' harrowing firsthand account of the disease, its symptoms, its social consequences, and the tragic death of Pericles himself. They discuss how the plague eroded trust in law, religion, and civic duty, and how it changed the course of the war. They also touch on modern theories about what the pathogen might have been—typhoid fever, Ebola-like viral hemorrhagic fever, or something…
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