Shortly after the Lacedaemonians invasion of Attica, cases of the plague began to appear in Athens. Most studies suggest that the plague had previously broken out in nearby towns of Lemnos and elsewhere, but nothing to the extent of the Athens tragedy had ever been witnessed. The physicians’ at the time had no real idea how to fight or cure the disease, and being around the ill typically led to them becoming infected faster. Throughout history, many historians documented the descriptions of the plague. Two of these accounts can be located in Thucydides work as well as in the play Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. It is notable that even though Thucydides work is a historical document and Sophocles play is a drama, they both describe the plague
