The Plague of Athens: The Great Debate

Authors

Nikki Bortolotto, Sheridan College
Holly De Vaal, Sheridan College
Nashad Hakim, Sheridan College
Dawid Starecki, Sheridan College

Podcast

The Great Debate

Document Type

Student Work

Publication Date

Winter 2021

Keywords

Plague of Athens, Typhoid, Measles, Smallpox, Peloponnesian War, Historic Plagues, Podcast, Thucydides

Abstract

Based on Thucydides' reported symptoms, there area number of hypothesized diseases which could be responsible for the plague including, measles, typhoid, and smallpox, among others. The goal of this project is to take a deep dive into the literature to assess the merits of various plague aetiologies. We have created an election style debate delivered through a podcast that will allow the audience to make links between different diseases and the writings of Thucydides to help identify which disease is responsible for causing the plague

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Faculty

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (FHASS)

Copyright

© Nikki Bortolotto, Holly De Vaal, Nashad Hakim, Dawid Starecki

Terms of Use

Terms of Use for Works posted in SOURCE.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

SOURCE Citation

Bortolotto, Nikki; De Vaal, Holly; Hakim, Nashad; and Starecki, Dawid, "The Plague of Athens: The Great Debate" (2021). Plagues and Resiliency: Public History Winter 2021. 1.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/swfhass_projects_public_history_plagues_resiliency/1