Apr 22, 2020
Plaster cast bust of Thucydides (in the Pushkin Museum)
from a Roman copy (located at Holkham Hall) of
an early fourth-century BC Greek original
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Born | c. 460 BC[1] Halimous, Athens (modern Alimos)
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Died | c. 400 BC (aged approximately
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Thucydides from Ancient Greece - perhaps the first Historian - gives a famous Account of the Plague of Athens from over 2000 years ago - Ancient Greek Literary Scholar Jenna Colclough explains to Dr Raj Persaud the relevance to today's pandemic using her thesis researched while she was at the University of Western Ontario.