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Topic: 412 BCE epidemic

412 BCE epidemic

Years: 412BCE - 412BCE

The 412 BC epidemic of an unknown disease, often identified as influenza, is reported in Northern Greece by Hippocrates and in Rome by Livy.

Both describe he epidemic continuing for roughly a year.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

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