Thucydides was a man who caught the plague, and lived to tell all the details, of how it affected the city. At this time in the Athens people were living in filth, the areas were overpopulated. A lot of land was destroyed from the Peloponnesian War, which lead to a decrease in farming, which lead to hunger. People did some disg

usting things to survive, if there was no food left they would eat their family that died from the plague. Depression arose in the cities of Greece. Before the plague hit the cities Greece was going through hard times, like I noted before the cities were overpopulated, lands destroyed; there was a shortage in the economy, so this was a big problem for the Athens.

Thucydides states that “ The character of the malady no words can describe, and the fury with which it fastened upon each sufferer was too much for human nature to endure”[Thucydides- History of the Peloponnesian War- Print out]. These people were suffering so much; day after day hundreds of bodies were dying. So many bodies it was unable to bury them all, so most were burned or thrown in the water. The c

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