{"id":2257,"date":"2020-08-12T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/husscovid.micheldurinx.opalstacked.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2020-08-12T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T13:37:40","slug":"how-did-people-respond-to-pandemics-in-ancient-greece-and-what-can-we-learn-from-this-neville-morley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/covidsociety\/2020\/08\/12\/how-did-people-respond-to-pandemics-in-ancient-greece-and-what-can-we-learn-from-this-neville-morley\/","title":{"rendered":"How did people respond to pandemics in Ancient Greece, and what can we learn from this? (Neville Morley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By <a href=\"mailto:n.d.g.morley@exeter.ac.uk\">Neville Morley<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The first detailed, quasi-scientific account of epidemic disease was offered by the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describing an outbreak of &#8216;plague&#8217; (the identity of the disease is unknown) in Athens in 430 BCE. 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