https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens
The Plague of Athens was an epidemic that effected Athens (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the eastern Mediterranean) during the second Peloponnesian war.
What would the effects be hadthis epidemic reached the levels of devestation of say the Plague of Justinian? It apparently caused some social breakdown in Athens itself. Could it lead to a collapse or transformation of the social and political structures of Greece and the wider ancient world? How far could it conceivably spread?
The Plague of Athens was an epidemic that effected Athens (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the eastern Mediterranean) during the second Peloponnesian war.
What would the effects be hadthis epidemic reached the levels of devestation of say the Plague of Justinian? It apparently caused some social breakdown in Athens itself. Could it lead to a collapse or transformation of the social and political structures of Greece and the wider ancient world? How far could it conceivably spread?