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- The Plague of Athens was an epidemic which hit the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), when an Athenian victory still seemed possible. Many historians believe that it entered Athens through Piraeus, the city's port and sole source of food and supplies.
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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 epidemic there killed the 13-year-old son of the Byzantine emperor, John VI Kantakouzenos, who wrote a description of the disease modelled on Thucydides's account of the 5th century BCE Plague of Athens, noting the spread of the Black Death by ship between maritime cities.
- 1346–1353
- Bubonic plague
- 75,000,000–200,000,000 (estimated)
History of plague. Globally about 600 cases of plague are reported a year. [1] . In 2017 and November 2019 the countries with the most cases include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru. [1]
May 20, 2021 · HISTORY MAGAZINE. The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause remains a mystery. Killing nearly a third of the population, an epidemic ripped through Athens in 430 B.C....
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.
Nov 1, 2017 · Science. Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Roman Plague. Church records from the third century could help identify the disease that nearly killed the empire. By Kyle Harper. Jules-Élie...
Jan 3, 2023 · The pestilence would return in 429 BC and again in the winter of 427. Modern researchers have posited nearly thirty pathogens as responsible for the plague of Athens, although its origins remain a medical mystery to this very day. It was the most lethal episode of illness of anywhere in the history of classical Greece.
