Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides

Michelakis, Pantelis (Associate Professor of Classical Reception and Fellow of St Hilda's College

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Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' Oedipus the King (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War book 2 (esp. 47.3-54).
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Writer
Michelakis, Pantelis (Associate Professor of Classical Reception and Fellow of St Hilda's College
Title
Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
272
EAN
9780198844105
Binding format
Hardback

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