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From peaches and lentils to your favourite herb, ancient Mediterranean doctors had strong opinions about what you should (and ...

The Antonine Plague struck the Roman Empire like never before, killing soldiers, citizens, and even emperors. Was it smallpox, measles, or something worse? And how did it weaken Rome’s power? Watch ...

Antonine Plague, caused by smallpox, during the rule of Marcus Aurelius in the Roman Empire. It killed a total estimated number of about 5 million individuals, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Galen began his career treating ’the protracted plague’ with viper flesh, opium and urine, but despite his extensive documentation, we still don’t know what a modern diagnosis would be. Josephine ...

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 ...

Forensic: Colin Elliot used modern science and medicine to study the Antonine Plague. Photo / Supplied BOOK REVIEW: When women started asking men how often they think about ancient Rome, a recent ...

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 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 ...

Similarly, the Plague of Cyprian occurred between 250 and 270 C.E. It originated in Ethiopia before spreading across the Mediterranean region and beyond; its death toll may have reached as high as ...