Plague in Thebes
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
a great pestilence · blight · disease · flaming god · malign plague · pestilence · plague · tempest · the plague
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Oedipus Tyrannus
The lethal affliction wasting Thebes through death, infertility, failed harvests, and ritual desperation.
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History of the Peloponnesian War
The great plague that had earlier struck Athens, referenced as a recent hardship from which the city was only beginning to recover.
"We ought to remember, too, that we have but lately recovered a little from a great pestilence and war, so as to be somewhat recruited both in our property and persons;
The city had lately recovered itself from the plague, and from continued hostilities, as regarded both the number of young men who had grown up, and the accumulation of money in consequence of the truce;