Plagues and Medea... sorta fitting.

I suppose everyone has already heard about the ancient Athens plague being discovered as typhoid.

The abstract of the paper is here. Thanks to Classics-L again.

And because I have COOL FRIENDS who find COOL THINGS here is a video of Maria Callas as Medea!! It's from Italian newsreel footage, and it's fabulous. Sadly my Italian is barely existent. But... Maria Callas! As Medea! Yay!