David Feeney

Graduate student at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

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How plague helped make Rome a superpower

Epidemics haunt history, but at a time of COVID-19 it pays to remember they shape history too, as happened in 212 BC at Syracuse

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