Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Plague of Thebes (1842)

Charles Francois Jalabert: The Plague of Thebes

The "Plague of Thebes" was referenced in Oedipus Rex, the great play by Sophocles. Modern disease detectives have tried to figure out what it was.
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