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Ancient Greeks purged city-states of disease as they would a human body – and it was the most vulnerable that suffered

  • Written by Meghan Henning, Assistant Professor of Christian Origins, University of Dayton
The Plague of Athens.Michiel Sweerts/ Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Wikipedia

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