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Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius
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The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists & on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this 2007 book, Prof. Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s & argues for a significant relationship between drama & the development of the cult of the heali
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Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
December 1st 2007
by Cambridge University Press
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