Primary Source Analysis: History of the Peloponnesian War

    Thucydides, the general of the war at the time created a source talking about the plague that occurred during the Peloponnesian war. He personally survived the plague. The plague began in Ethiopia and traveled to Africa and finally to Greece. He created the source to inform future doctors and scientist to notify the possibilities for the plague to start again. The plague was devastating, causing you to lose body parts and your mind. In conclusion, living in Athens would disastrous, because you aren't able to travel beyond the wall, and having to stay in a largely populated area with a traveling illness. 

"For the disease, which took first the head, began above and came down and passed through the whole body; and he that overcame the worst of it was yet marked with the loss of his extreme parts; for breaking out both at their privy members and at their fingers and toes, many with the loss of these escaped; there were also some that lost their eyes."