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75,000–100,000. The Plague of Athens ( Ancient Greek: Λοιμὸς τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, Loimos tôn Athênôn) was an epidemic that devastated the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year (430 BC) of the Peloponnesian War when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. The plague killed an estimated 75,000 to ...
Apr 1, 2020 · Modern-day scholars believe it was most likely an outbreak of smallpox or typhus, but bubonic plague is still considered a possibility. The primary source for information on the event is the historian Thucydides (l. 460/455-399/398 BCE), an Athenian who suffered through the disease and survived. He referred to the pestilence as the plague but ...
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Apr 7, 2020 · The plague reached Athens in 430 BC through the city's port of Piraeus. It would persist throughout scattered parts of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean until finally dying out in 426 BC. The Greek historian Thucydides recorded the outbreak in his monumental work, History of the Peloponnesian War. This was the first time that the details of ...
The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic that ravaged the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece in 430 B.C.E., during the second year of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E. ), when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. The disease killed over 30,000 citizens, sailors, and soldiers of Athens—one-quarter to one-third of the ...
May 20, 2021 · By the time the plague ended around 425 B.C., it is estimated that nearly a third of the city’s people died, with between 75,000 to 100,000 lives lost. Sparta and Athens would strike a truce ...
The ancient city of Athens, renowned for its unparalleled contributions to democracy, philosophy, and the arts, faced an adversary in 430 BC that neither its formidable navy nor its intellectual prowess could combat. This adversary was not Sparta, its longstanding rival in the Peloponnesian War, but a silent, invisible force that would come to be known as the Plague of Athens. As the disease ...
