Status Updates From Pox Romana: The Plague That...

Currently 42% through this book and I’m not really sure that much has been said or shown beyond the very first chapter. Feels like I’m writing my senior thesis and re-writing the same few data points on repeat in different ways.

Just tore up part one. It’s fascinating the research deep dives he has taken to build the foundations of the pandemic. He’s weaving Rome’s issues with food supply, malnourishment, over population within cities and climate changes into the perfect stepping stones for a disease.

highlight of chapter 5 is calling aelius aristides sacred tales 'the mystical musings of an upper-class twit'