Description

• Title:
  A mysterious epidemic in Georgics by Publius Virgil Maro. A short commentary
• Creator:
  Bartnik, Agnieszka
• Description:
  This article analyses an excerpt from the third song of Georgics. Virgil described a disease that attacked many animal species, including cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and humans. On the basis of the described symptoms and the number of species attacked by the plague, it should be concluded that the poet described anthrax – a zoonotic disease caused by the Bacillus anthracis bacterium.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Agnieszka Bartnik
• Date:
  2022.08.18
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Vol. 32 No. 1 (2022); 41-56;
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Tom 32 Nr 1 (2022); 41-56;
  2720-2305;
  0302-7384
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/34962/30218
• Subject:
  anthrax;;
  disease;;
  zoonosis;;
  Bacillus anthracis;;
  Virgil;;
  sheep;;
  horse;;
  pig;
  anthrax;
  disease;
  zoonosis;
  Bacillus anthracis;
  Virgil;
  shhep;
  horse
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/34962
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text