Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World by Colin Elliott

Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World

Colin Elliott

328 pages first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history medium-paced
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Did a single disease—its origins and diagnosis still a mystery—bring Rome to its knees? Carefully examining all the available evidence, Elliott shows that Rome’s problems were more insidious. Years before the pandemic, the thin veneer of Roman pea...

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