The Athenian Plague
event · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the plague · mortal miasma · that pestilence · the pestilence · the sickness · this devastation strange · this disease
spoken of as
3 expressionsAthenian Plague2 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · Symposium (Greek)
And Diotima the Mantinean, the Athenians having sacrificed before the plague, made a ten-year postponement of the disease for them;
Plague at Athens1 mention
Symposium (Greek)
for once, by bidding the Athenians offer sacrifices ten years before the plague, she procured them so much delay in the advent of the sickness.
The Plague at Athens1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
Next after these symptoms sneezing and hoarseness came on;
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The epidemic afflicting Athens, cited by Pericles as the one calamity of the war that came wholly beyond expectation.
which has been your case, in addition to every thing else, more especially with regard to the plague.
Next after these symptoms sneezing and hoarseness came on;
Yet in this invasion they stayed the longest time, and ravaged the whole country:
Stromata
A plague at Athens postponed for ten years through Diotima's ritual sacrifice.
And Diotima the Mantinean, the Athenians having sacrificed before the plague, made a ten-year postponement of the disease for them;
De Rerum Natura
The great plague that devastated Athens (the historical plague of 430 BCE, following Thucydides), narrated at length as an illustration of disease caused by tainted atmosphere.
In rigid death.
The Athenian town.
Plague-stricken mob.
Symposium
A historical plague among the Athenians whose onset Diotima reportedly delayed by ten years through ritual sacrifice.
for once, by bidding the Athenians offer sacrifices ten years before the plague, she procured them so much delay in the advent of the sickness.