The Antonine Plague is a pandemic believed …
Years: 160 - 171
The Antonine Plague is a pandemic believed to be either of smallpox or measles, and will ultimately claim the lives of two Roman emperors—Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius, whose family name, Antoninus, is given to the epidemic.
The disease will break out again nine years later, according to the Roman historian Dio Cassius, and cause up to two thousand deaths a day at Rome, one quarter of those infected.
Total deaths have been estimated at five million.
The angel of death striking a door during the plague of Rome; engraving by Levasseur after Jules-Elie Delaunay (This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom.)
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Years: 160 - 171
The angel of death striking a door during the plague of Rome; engraving by Levasseur after Jules-Elie Delaunay (This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom.)
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