The Plague of Thebes, a Historical Epidemic in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
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Auteurs : Antonis A. Kousoulis ; Konstantinos P. Economopoulos ; Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou ; George Androutsos ; Sotirios TsiodrasSource :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases [ 1080-6040 ] ; 2012.
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DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.AD1801
PubMed: 22261081
PubMed Central: 3310127
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<aff id="aff1">University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (A.A. Kousoulis, K.P. Economopoulos, E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, G. Androutsos, S. Tsiodras);</aff>
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<author-notes><corresp id="cor1">Address for correspondence: Antonis A. Kousoulis, History of Medicine Department, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 131 Lambrou Katsoni Str., Athens, 18344 Greece; email: <email xlink:href="antonis.kousoulis@gmail.com">antonis.kousoulis@gmail.com</email>
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<abstract abstract-type="toc"><p><italic>Brucella abortus</italic>
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<abstract><p>Sophocles, one of the most noted playwrights of the ancient world, wrote the tragedy Oedipus Rex in the first half of the decade 430–420 <sc>bc</sc>
. A lethal plague is described in this drama. We adopted a critical approach to Oedipus Rex in analyzing the literary description of the disease, unraveling its clinical features, and defining a possible underlying cause. Our goals were to clarify whether the plague described in Oedipus Rex reflects an actual historical event; to compare it with the plague of Athens, which was described by Thucydides as occurring around the same time Sophocles wrote; and to propose a likely causative pathogen. A critical reading of Oedipus Rex and a comparison with Thucydides’ history, as well as a systematic review of historical data, strongly suggests that this epidemic was an actual event, possibly caused by <italic>Brucella abortus</italic>
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