Blog 29

From the articles I read today I learned that Spartans invaded Athenian territory and and set about bruins all the farmland around the city. The Athenians could not do anything except watch from within the city walls of all their fields getting burnt. Athenians trotted in Pericles and his plan of surviving off of shipment through the seas. one of the cargo ships one year brought the unthinkable, the plague. Pericles wasn't prepared for anything like this to happen. The symptoms of this disease were horrific and the few citizens left recorded it. it started at the head and worked its way through the body, this caused the town to look terrible, smell terrible and just a terrible time to be there. dying men laid one on another in the streets, the disease became so gruesome that no one cared about law or religion anymore. there was no point of being good if the good and evil die the same. this plague killed over a third of Athens population, and got to the head of the city, Pericles. Pericles finally died in 429 BC from this plague. he had planned to make Athens into the Mediterranean's greatest power but had turned out to be only disease and death.