雅典大瘟疫是一场在大约公元前430年左右爆发的一场瘟疫,發生在伯罗奔尼撒战争的第二年,幾乎摧毀了希腊城邦,据说这场瘟疫导致将近过半的古希腊人惨死当中。一般認為瘟疫是從比雷埃夫斯進入雅典的,比雷埃夫斯是雅典的港口,也是唯一食物及補給的來源。地中海東部的許多地區也有發生瘟疫,但影響較小。瘟疫後來又在公元前429年及西元前427(426)年的冬天出現。目前提出可能造成這次瘟疫的病原體已達30種。
参见
*流行病列表
*倫敦大瘟疫
*馬賽大瘟疫
*建安二十二年瘟疫
參考資料
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- McNeill, William H. Plagues and People. New York: Anchor Books, 1976. .
- Pomeroy, Sarah B. Spartan Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. .
- Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues. Boston,1935; New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1996. .
外部連結
- [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7CPT-4K1X87X-2&_user=7333726&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000071312&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=7333726&md5=7c585694017b00cd35456a2e34b72d2d and the reply to it by Shapiro et al.]
[http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng3:2.47 History of the Peloponnesian War* 2.47–55].
- [http://www.livescience.com/history/060123_athens_fall.html Live Science article] Accessed January 23, 2006.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130110204846/http://www.hist.uib.no/antikk/antres/Womens%20life.htm Women in Classical Athens]
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