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Plague and the Athenian Imagination
Author | : Robin Mitchell-Boyask |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2007-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139468237 |
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The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.
The plague of Athens
Author | : Thomas Sprat (bp. of Rochester.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1676 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590934204 |
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The Plague of War
Author | : Jennifer Tolbert Roberts |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199996643 |
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A major new history of the violent, protracted conflict between ancient Athens and Sparta.
Epidemics
Author | : Samuel Kline Cohn |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198819660 |
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In this study, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates hundreds of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases.--
Plagues Pandemics and Viruses
Author | : Heather E. Quinlan |
Publsiher | : Visible Ink Press |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 2020-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781578597369 |
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Pandemics can come in waves—like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts. Most, but not all, bacteria are good for us. Some are truly horrific, including those that caused the bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plagues. And viruses and bacteria are always morphing, evolving, and changing, making them hard to treat. Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 is an enlightening, and sometimes frightening, recounting of the destruction wrought by disease, but it also looks at what man has done and can do to overcome even the deadliest and bleakest of contagions. More than two years in the making, author Heather E. Quinlan was deep into her research and writing when COVID hit. She quickly saw the similarities to plagues from the past. Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 not only covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world’s biggest pandemics, but it also draws parallels to the present. It chronicles the diseases that have inflicted man throughout the millennia, including ... The differences (and similarities) between COVID-19 and other coronaviruses The bubonic plague/black plague, which wiped out 30% to 60% of Europe’s population The devastation to the indigenous population during the European colonization of the Americas The 1918 Spanish Flu, which did not come from Spain How disease “inspired” The Canterbury Tales, Wuthering Heights, the pop art of Keith Haring, and other art and literature AIDS’ “patient zero” How climate change will affect future pandemics The aftermath of various pandemics Several modern diseases making a comeback ... and much, much more. Along with investigating some of history’s most notorious pandemics and diseases, Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses takes a look at human resilience and what we’ve learned from the past. It looks at how science, the medical community, and governments have conquered or mitigated most epidemics even before they can turn into pandemics. It reviews the science of pandemics, preventative measures, and medical interventions and it includes an exclusive interview with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as other experts in the medical community. Richly illustrated, it also has a helpful bibliography and extensive index. This invaluable resource is designed to help you understand, and protect you from, plagues, pandemics, epidemics, viruses, and disease!
The Plague of Athens
Author | : John Ireland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : OXFORD:N11034731 |
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The history of the plague of Athens tr with remarks explanatory of its pathology by C Collier
Author | : Thucydides,Charles Collier |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590980979 |
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Transactions and Proceedings
Author | : American Philological Association |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Philology |
ISBN | : UVA:X004782695 |
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