Thucydides_Description_Of_The_Plague

Thucydides Description Of The Plague The Plague effected people around the time of 1430 B.C. This was a disease that attacks the human all over body. Soon after the Peloponnesian War the plague entered the cities. Some of the symptoms are: violent heats in the head, redness and burning of the eyes, internally redness in the throat and in the tongue, breath abnormal and fetid, sneezing and hoarseness, violent cough, upset heart, and vomiting. All of these symptoms can lead to death. Thucydides was a man who caught the plague, and lived to tell all the details, of how it affected the city. At this time in the Athens people were living in filth, the areas were overpopulated. A lot of land was destroyed from the Peloponnesian War, which lead to a decrease in farming, which lead to hunger. People did some disgusting things to survive, if there was no food left they would eat their family that died from the plague. Depression arose in the cities of Greece. Before the plague hit the cities Greece was going through hard times, like I noted before the cities were overpopulated, lands destroyed; there was a shortage in the economy, so this was a big problem for the people, plague, greece, war, left, city, cities, values, shortage, peloponnesian, lead, destroyed, wasn’t, violent, time, thrown, through, symptoms, survived, survive, since, same, redness, overpopulated, outlive, much, human, greek, food, fear, families, death, day, bodies, before, because