Deed — 2 authors face each other below

plague of Athens

kind: plague · 430-426 BCE — the editor’s frame · 5 mentions across 5 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The epidemic of the war's second year, which Thucydides caught and survived; includes the death of Pericles in 429 among its consequences.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Thucydides clinically catalogues symptoms and the collapse of piety; Plutarch turns the same plague into the people's case against Pericles — the disease as politics. Thucydides' obituary verdict (2.65) and Plutarch's sickbed scene (38) close the same life from opposite ends.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 430–426 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 430–426 BCE — date secure ·

Broke out in the second summer of the war (Thuc. 2.47), 430 BCE, with recurrences to 426.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · one account

34–38 the principal narrative The plague as accusation, the deaths in Pericles' house, and his own slow case.

in the delirium of the plague, attempted to do him harm, persuaded thereto by his enemies Plut. Pericles 34

the plague laid hold of Pericles, not with a violent attack, as in the case of others Plut. Pericles 38

Pericles · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Thucydides · 2 accounts

2.47–2.54 the principal narrative The clinical narrative and the moral anatomy of a city under plague.

the plague first began to show itself among the Athenians. It was said that it had broken out in many places previously Thuc. 2.47

Men now coolly ventured on what they had formerly done in a corner Thuc. 2.53

History of the Peloponnesian War · Richard Crawley, 1874

2.65 looking back The verdict on Pericles, dead of the plague's aftermath, and on his successors.

He outlived its commencement two years and six months, and the correctness of his previsions respecting it became better known by his death. Thuc. 2.65

History of the Peloponnesian War · Richard Crawley, 1874

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Pericles — 3 episodes shared Archidamus — a candidate entry Cyrus — a candidate entry Theophrastus — 1 episode shared Zeuxidamus — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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