The Fate of Rome
I think it's interesting how the Roman people always blame their illnesses and pandemics on their gods and pray to them to heal the city. I feel like if I thought it was a god that caused the pandemic we are living in now I would not be happy about having to pray to that god to take it away. I would want to curse that god. Especially in a time without modern medicine, I can't imagine the horror a pandemic like this could have caused to the people. It's interesting to me how they praise and worship the gods that bring so much wrath down upon them. They have to kind of walk on egg shells so as not to upset them too much and bring a plague down on the people. I also think it's interesting that their plagues and pandemics were something so easily fixed now because of modern medicine. I wonder if Covid-19 would have wiped more of us out by now without modern medicine? How would the Romans have dealt with this pandemic? What god would they have blamed it on?