
Plague of Athens
The Ancients
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Is There Any Kind of Physical Contact Within Athens?
Disease starts in Ethiopia, goes to Egypt, Libya and then arrives in the port of Athens. The port was a separate community from the main city but it was joined by these long walls. Now these walls normally provided a point of separation between the Parreas and the main centre of Athens. But when Pericles fills the city with people, where do they go? And one of the big vacant spaces is the long walls. So you have this connection, as it were, between the harbour and the main city,. With a line of refugees finding space to live. We get these extraordinary descriptions of life in the long walls and these communities living in essentially makeshift tents, that sort of
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