Ancient World
Malaria in Greek History
William Henry Samuel Jones, Edward Theodore Withington
2026
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Did a mosquito end the Greek miracle? W. H. S. Jones makes a startling case: that malaria arrived in Greece and hollowed it out, sapping the energy of the classical world from the inside, showing up in Hippocrates, in the poets, and in a slow decline nobody could otherwise explain. You will discover an argument that reads the ancient record as a medical document. History with a fever. Press play and take the temperature.
Inside this audiobook
10 chapters
- 1Preface. Disease-parasites competitors with man in the struggle for existence. The importance of this for historians.9m
- 2Introduction. The nature and cause of malaria. Chief investigators since 1717.13m
- 3Chapter I. Malaria in modern Greece, and its effects upon the inhabitants.17m
- 4Chapter II. Malaria in the ancient non-medical writers.55m
- 5Chapter III. Malaria in the ancient medical writers.19m
- 6Chapter IV. The extent to which malaria was prevalent.9m
- 7Chapter V. The effects of malaria upon the ancient Greeks.1h 3m
- 8Appendix. I. Home-life and the position of women possibly affected by the increase of malaria. II. Chief Greek diseases other than malaria.11m
- 9Conclusion.5m
- 10Additional Chapter. A difficulty in the history of Greek therapeutics explained by the "malaria theory"35m
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