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oa Representation of the Plague in Ancient Greek and Byzantine Texts and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Plagues occurred several times in history and were also often described in literary contexts. In his essay, the author addresses these issues, exploring in particular the question of what ancient texts can still tell us today in terms of responses to the current pandemic.

Keywords: ancient greek ; Byzantine Emperor John VI Kantakuzenos ; byzantine times ; contexts ; covid-19 ; history of medicine ; Homer's Iliad ; pandemic ; representation ; Thucydides' Peloponesian War

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Intellect , 93 (2024); https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1386/9781789389869_7
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     [Google Scholar]
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  5. Craik, E. M. (2001), ‘Thucydides on the plague: Physiology of flux and fixation’, Classical Quarterly, 51, pp. 102–08.
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     [Google Scholar]
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  21. Whately, C. (2017), ‘Thucydides, Procopius, and the historians of the later Roman Empire’, in S. Forsdyke, R. Baltot and E. Foster (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 692–707.
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