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The Ancient Greeks also lived through a plague, and they too blamed their leaders for their suffering
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The Ancient Greeks also lived through a plague, and they too blamed their leaders for their suffering

Joel Christensen
The Conversation
02/16/2022

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Plague Classical Antiquity Athens Sparta 1918 Flu Pandemic Religion and Society COVID-19 Despair Peloponnesian War COVID-19 Deaths Public Health
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a scholar of ancient Greek literature, I have returned again and again to the Greek historian Thucydides to try understand the historical parallels to the American response to the health crisis.
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