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The 2021 Annual Joan Palevsky Lecture will be a Departmental Roundtable Panel, featuring a discussion among members of the UCLA Classics Department of plagues in antiquity, including the plagues of 5th century Athens, Antonine Rome and Justinian. In addition to discussing medical, literary, historical, and archaeological sources, we will also consider the nature of the different ancient pathogens, the social disorder and disruptions to authority and truth caused by ancient pandemics, theories of causation, immunity, and treatment, as well as…