10 Pandemics That History Books Don't Want You to Remember

10 Pandemics That History Books Don't Want You to Remember It is the summer of four hundred and thirty BC, and Athens is burning, not with fire but with fever. The most brilliant city on earth, the birthplace of democracy and philosophy, the civilization that gave the world Socrates and the Parthenon, is watching its people collapse in the streets. Something crawled in through the port of Piraeus, and within weeks it is everywhere. The historian Thucydides, who survived it, wrote that no one could explain it. No one could stop it.