The disease’s rapid spread at Athens was helped by the overcrowded conditions resulting from the entire population of the countryside living inside the walls of the city due to the war. The plague also broke out at other places in Greece but nowhere was it as severe as at Athens.
No one was spared from the disease. According to some estimates as much as a third of the population of Athens may have died from the plague. Social order suffered and Athens’ war effort was also affected as many of their soldiers fell sick and perished from the illness. After two years the plague lapsed for a bit before returning for one last deadly round in 426.
.jpg)
0 comments:
Post a Comment