Plague and the Athenian imagination : drama, history, and the cult of Asclepius / Robin Mitchell-Boyask.

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 2007 book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for...

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