- Title
- The fluidity of the past and the present: historians and ways of perceiving/understanding: part 2
- Creator
- Morpeth, Neil
- Relation
- Teaching History Vol. 44, Issue 1, p. 18-25
- Relation
- http://www.htansw.asn.au/teaching-history-journal
- Publisher
- History Teachers' Association of NSW
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- There are, of course, many paths to the study of the past. Given Thucydides' keen interest in the Great Athenian epidemic (the nosos ... or loimôdês nosos, the pestilential epidemic/sickness, 1.23.3) a further look at disease in history might well be useful both in terms of furthering historical understanding and thinking about disease-in-history, and as a way or rather ways to 'model' or further study human behaviour in time, across time and in situ- namely, in its urban/populous, warring and geographic environments. That is, the historical and potentially social anthropological utility of studying epidemic disease in Antiquity, rests in this distant world, or rather, these distant worlds, acting as both working historical model-like studies of the passage of epidemic disease/s as well as providing forensic, historical/socio-cultural zones for the study of ancient disease patterns, and their impact through time. Such studies can provide windows through which 'ancient' diseases and/or their 'modern' offspring might be better understood or viewed. Once contemporary experiences can have lives well beyond their immediate historical time, place and situation.
- Subject
- historians; fluidity; anthropology; disease
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/940632
- Identifier
- uon:13049
- Identifier
- ISSN:0040-0602
- Language
- eng
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