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The plague killed an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people, around 25% of the population, and is believed to have entered Athens through Piraeus, the city's port and sole source of food and supplies. [1]
7 Απρ 2020 · The plague reached Athens in 430 BC through the city's port of Piraeus. It would persist throughout scattered parts of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean until finally dying out in 426 BC. The Greek historian Thucydides recorded the outbreak in his monumental work, History of the Peloponnesian War .
21 Μαΐ 2020 · From a rhetorical and analytical standpoint, Thucydides used the Plague of Athens in order to reflect on war and social disintegration – the so-called anomia; the plague is credited with the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War and its geopolitical decline in the following period.
1 Απρ 2020 · The plague arrived in Athens through the port at Piraeus shortly after the beginning of the Second Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) fought between Athens and Sparta. Tensions between the two city-states had increased after the defeat of the Persian invasion of Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BCE) in 479 BCE.
The Athenian historian Thucydides, who carefully documented the plague, believed it originated in Ethiopia, spread to Egypt and Libya, and then arrived in Athens‘ port of Piraeus, the city‘s commercial hub and naval base.
24 Αυγ 2016 · The plague entered Athens through the city 's port of Piraeus. The Greek historian Thucydides recorded the outbreak in his monumental work on the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) between Athens and Sparta.
28 Σεπ 2024 · Almost all Camus’s writing accentuates the presence of the sea, the sun, and the sky. Yet, in The Plague, Oran is described as having been built with its back to the sea, without easy access...
