The Antonine Plague struck the Roman Empire like never before, killing soldiers, citizens, and even emperors. Was it smallpox ...

Kyle Harper, Pandemics and passages to late antiquity: rethinking the plague of c.249–270 described by Cyprian. Rebecca Fleming, Galen and the plague. Richard Duncan-Jones, The Antonine plague ...

The Antonine plague would continue to rage in the cities and military camps of the Roman Empire for at least another decade. A second wave of an undiagnosed epidemic disease hit Rome in 190 AD; if ...

Colin Elliott has written a model account of one of the great catastrophes to strike the ancient world: the Antonine Plague that swept the Roman world between 165 and the 180s, killing millions. The ...

In his new book, Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World, Colin Elliott looks at the effects of the Antonine plague on the Roman world and its effects on an empire already beginning to ...

The Antonine Plague, which may have been smallpox, laid waste to the army and may have killed over 5 million people in the Roman empire, wrote April Pudsey, a senior lecturer in Roman History at ...

But the causes of the cold that coincided with the Antonine Plague and the Plague of Cyprian aren’t known. And the diseases behind those plagues are also unknown.

Assessing the impact of the Antonine Plague under Emperor Commodus (177-92 CE), Josephine Quinn states that ‘rebellion against Roman forces gathered pace from Sparta to Egypt’ (LRB, 15 August).The ...

Now, this was not the first plague during the Roman period. Indeed, the Antonine Plague of 165 to 180 CE and the Plague of Cyprian from 251 to 266 CE also devastated the Roman population.

The western Roman empire’s economic and political decline started with the smallpox-like Antonine plague that began in A.D. 165, and intensified the following century with the Ebola-like Cyprian ...