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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...