Plague of Athens
The Ancients
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Plague Burial
For Thucydides, what he sees coming out of the plague is man's kind of worst nature making a manifest itself. Burial for them is super important; it's the greatest duty that a child owes to their parents. People are no longer burying people properly, they're violating each other's piers. They're just taking a body and borrowing someone's piers, throwing another body on to the top of someone else's pier. That's not how Greeks do things.
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