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The bishop's tired words recorded five thousand dying in a day
A bishop records the dead piling in Rome-five thousand in one day-and an empire reduced to managing corpses as a mysterious plague spreads.
The bishop's tired words recorded five thousand dying in a day
In this episode, we follow contemporary accounts and clinical-sounding records to track how a mysterious epidemic overwhelmed cities and institutions across the Roman world. We ask how a society built on permanence responded when its systems-grain, trade, burial-collapsed and what the surviving descriptions can tell us about the disease.
Person: Cyprian of Carthage
Event: Plague of Cyprian…
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