![]() ![]() “A pestilence,” Procopius wrote of the plague, “by which the whole human race was near to being annihilated.” Researchers are still digging up evidence connected to the plague all these years later. However, diaries from Procopius, a noted historian back then, indicate that many thought the end of civilization was upon them. Snowden, a Yale historian who studies pandemics, wrote in his book “Epidemics and Society” that definitive accounts of this plague have largely vanished. Thought to be the world’s first episode of bubonic plague, its namesake was the Byzantine emperor who was in power when it hit, likely arriving in the form of infected fleas hitching rides across the world on the backs of rodents. (Josse Lieferinxe/The Walters Art Museum) 1497, depicts Saint Sebastian kneeling to pray before God on behalf of people suffering from or killed by the plague. Josse Lieferinxe's "Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken," ca.
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