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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 8063756, member: 72790"]I think that one can make a strong case for plagues to fundamentally effect not just the social order, but every other aspect of living and surviving as well. Consider the effect of the plague (whatever it was) that hit Athens at the start of the Peloponnesian War, then the one that ravaged Rome during the reign of Aurelius and about a hundred years later, again the plague of Cyprian, each of which was followed by catastrophic retrenchment. Things were going along pretty well for Justinian and the Empire until this plague, probably bubonic, knocked the props out from under the emperor and the empire. I would like historians to delve more into that aspect of a civilization's decline. It may be that these plagues are something beyond even a Pericles or an Aurelius or a Justinian to cope with and that the decline and fall of Rome was not the triumph of barbarism and religion but of microbes and contagion.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 8063756, member: 72790"]I think that one can make a strong case for plagues to fundamentally effect not just the social order, but every other aspect of living and surviving as well. Consider the effect of the plague (whatever it was) that hit Athens at the start of the Peloponnesian War, then the one that ravaged Rome during the reign of Aurelius and about a hundred years later, again the plague of Cyprian, each of which was followed by catastrophic retrenchment. Things were going along pretty well for Justinian and the Empire until this plague, probably bubonic, knocked the props out from under the emperor and the empire. I would like historians to delve more into that aspect of a civilization's decline. It may be that these plagues are something beyond even a Pericles or an Aurelius or a Justinian to cope with and that the decline and fall of Rome was not the triumph of barbarism and religion but of microbes and contagion.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
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