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)
Hagnon therefore returned with his ships to Athens, having lost by the plague fifteen hundred out of four thousand heavy-armed, in about forty days.
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.
Hagnon therefore returned with his ships to Athens, having lost by the plague fifteen hundred out of four thousand heavy-armed, in about forty days.
Now all the time that the Peloponnesians were in the Athenian territory, and the Athenians were engaged in the expedition on board their ships, the plague was carrying them off both in the armament and in the city, so that it was even said that the Peloponnesians, for fear of the disorder, when they heard from the deserters that it was in the city, and also perceived them performing the funeral ri …
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.
Plague-stricken mob.
Mortal miasma in Cecropian lands
Whoso once saw himself in that disease
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.