This Is Sparta?
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Pericles's War With Athens
In the summer of four 30 b c, a plague rips through athens. Nothing did more damage to athens than the plague, he said. Modern historians are still scratching their heads over what exactly it was. Some people say it started in ethiopia and travelled across the mediterranean by way of tradeships. There is even a conspiracy theory or two involving deliberate poisoning of the water by the spartans.
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