Related Guides
Selected Texts
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King [aka Rex, Tyrannus]. 429 B.C.E., 1-101 From: Ancient Medicine: The Classical Roots of the Medical Humanities: Unit 3: Plagues
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 430 B.C.E., Book II: 47-54 (XLVII-LIV) Loeb Cassics Digital Library.
- Galen and the [Antonine] Plague, 2nd century C.E. Galen's references to the Antonine Plague are few and scattered. This Chapter collects and discusses them. Flemming, Rebecca. "Galen and the Plague." In Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De Indolentia) in Context: A Tale of Resilience, edited by Petit Caroline, 219-44.
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, 1349-1351, First Day 1348, 1353 eye witness?
- Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London, 1665 Published in 1722.
