plague
Archaeology
Greek Immigrant in Roman-Era London Used Amulet to Ward Off Plague
A Greek inhabitant of the Roman city of Londinium, lived through the Antonine plague by wearing a scroll with a Greek prayer in the form of rhyming hexameters.
Greek News
The World After the Coronavirus: What a Greek-American Yale Professor Envisions
The world after the coronavirus pandemic will look very different, according to a new book from Yale professor Nicholas Christakis.
Ancient Greece
Apollo Vs Agamemnon: The Plague in Ancient Greece was Divine Wrath
The plague appeared in Greece as a weapon of divine wrath. Agamemnon, offended the priest of Apollo and the God spread pestilence among the Greeks.
Ancient Greece
Plagues Follow Bad Leadership in Ancient Greek Tales
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By Joel Christensen*
In the fifth century BC, the playwright Sophocles began “Oedipus Tyrannos” with the title character struggling to identify the cause of a plague striking his city of Thebes. (Spoiler alert: It’s his own bad leadership.)
As someone who...