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Re:A Possession for All Time: How Should We Read Thucydides? by onychomys on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:55PM (#19157959)
The article totally misses that he's important to epidemiologists because it's the earliest good description of a plague. He spends several pages on the Plague of Athens in 430BCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens

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