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Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagious disease, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate (31 BCE-14 CE): relying on the metaphoric r

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Author

Hunter H. Gardner;

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192516367

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Poetry, Rome

Updated

2026-03-24