An approach to the plagues and epidemics in Ancient World

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  • Enrique Gozalbes Cravioto Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
  • Inmaculada García García Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/etfii.26.2013.13738

Keywords:

Middle East, Greece, Rome, epidemics, society

Abstract

This article examines the principal episodes of pest and epidemics that occurred in ancient civilizations. It discusses the great plague of the Hittites, in time of king Mursili II (1321-1295 B.C.), the plague sufferend by the Philistines (Azoth Plague), the epidemics suffered by the Carthaginian army in Sicily (V and IV centuries B. C.), the great pest of Athens in 431-429 B. C. (at present interpreted as typhus), the epidemics in the Roman Republic of the V and IV centuries B. C.), and epidemics suffered by the Roman Empire (especially the plague of the Antonines in the Second century, and that of Cyprian in the Third century. Which are interpreted as smallpox and measles). Finally, we expose data of the plague suffered by Byzantine in time of Emperor Justinian, which is now undoubtedly the main scourge of bubonic plague.

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Gozalbes Cravioto, E., & García García, I. (2014). An approach to the plagues and epidemics in Ancient World. Espacio Tiempo Y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, (26), 63–82. https://doi.org/10.5944/etfii.26.2013.13738

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