Tagged: Neville Morley

By Neville Morley As the world endures a pandemic, the War on the Rocks podcast looks to a plague of the past: that which struck Athens early in the Peloponnesian War. Where did the plague come from? How did it affect the war? How did it change Athenian society? We explore these questions and more […]

By Neville Morley The first detailed, quasi-scientific account of epidemic disease was offered by the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describing an outbreak of ‘plague’ (the identity of the disease is unknown) in Athens in 430 BCE. Thucydides’ description influenced many subsequent accounts; it is most interesting for his exploration of social and psychological responses to […]