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

  • Written by Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
The Ancient Greeks also lived through a plague, and they too blamed their leaders for their sufferingA painting by Nicolas Poussin titled 'The Athenian Plague' shows people dying of the plague.Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images

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...

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