{"id":432,"date":"2022-02-10T06:46:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T02:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mizajresearch.com\/history-of-medicine\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=432"},"modified":"2022-02-10T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T02:18:04","slug":"shipwreck-with-spectator-epidemics-and-society-in-the-ancient-world","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mizajresearch.com\/history-of-medicine\/articles\/shipwreck-with-spectator-epidemics-and-society-in-the-ancient-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck with Spectator Epidemics and Society in the Ancient World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Perilli<\/p>\r\n<h3>Journal: Research on History of Medicine <br \/>Year: 2021<\/h3>\r\n<h2 class=\"t m4 x0 h9 y31 ff4 fs4 fc1 sc0 ls1 ws4\">Abstract<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"t m4 x0 h9 y32 ff5 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls1 ws7\">Epidemics are dramatic, far-reaching events. Their impact on society is unpredictable. Starting from the meaning of the Greek word epidemia, the paper highlights its topographical and social connotation (\u201cstay at home, stay in a city\u201d), from Homer to Hippocrates. By revisiting some of the most impactful epidemic events in ancient Greece and Rome, some of them well known, it focuses on their social and political consequences, the geographic spread and the medical features, the continuities in the reaction,\u00a0 and in the astonishment of societies. These events are the Athenian so-called plague of 431 BCE; the epidemic cough of Perinthos as narrated in the Hippocratic Collection; the Antonine plague in Rome around 166 CE; the epidemic taking place in China in the same years of the Antonine plague, suggesting a possible connection between the two, at a time when the first direct contacts between the two empires were established. The notion of contagion is considered. The paper also briefly recalls the so-called plague of Justinian, whose fateful aftermath has been often related to the collapse of the Roman Empire. Eventually, a reflection upon the different perceptions of an epidemic can provide us with some food for thought.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h2 class=\"t m4 x0 h9 y2d ff5 fs4 fc1 sc0 ls1 ws7\">Keywords<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"t m4 x0 h9 y2d ff5 fs4 fc1 sc0 ls1 ws7\">Epidemics, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Hippocrates, Galen, Thucydides<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color: #7f8c8d;\" href=\"https:\/\/rhm.sums.ac.ir\/article_47943.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Access Full-text<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Perilli Journal: Research on History of Medicine Year: 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"authors":[208],"years":[118],"journals":[155],"keywords":[212,210,211,209,213,156,214],"class_list":["post-432","articles","type-articles","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","authors-lorenzo-perilli","years-118","journals-research-on-history-of-medicine","keywords-ancient-china","keywords-ancient-greece","keywords-ancient-rome","keywords-epidemics","keywords-galen","keywords-hippocrates","keywords-thucydides"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - 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