Open AccessPestes y pandemias en la antigüedad : visiones clásicas e interpretaciones modernas de las epidemias grecorromanas
Author(s) -
Javier Espino Martín
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
estudios filosofía/historia/letras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0185-6383
DOI - 10.5347/01856383.0135.000299472
Subject(s) - humanities , pandemic , covid-19 , politics , geography , political science , art , medicine , law , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Pests and pandemics are in the news because of the Covid-19 crisis. Although our world is not accustomed to epidemics, they have been very frequent throughout human history. This paper offers an analysis of the different plagues that devastated the Greco-Roman world, with the discussions made by classical authors and the political-social crises that they supposed, very similar to the present one.