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The Athenian Plague: New Evidence Inviting Medical Comment

SUMMARY

The large number of new troops available in 415 B.C. shows that the plague had affected children less than young adults, consistent with Sophocles’ portrait of children suppliants, and this supports the case for typhus.

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pp. 101 - 112
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