Which Greek God Is Associated With Swine Flu Pandemic Panic?
Which Greek God Is Associated With Swine Flu Pandemic Panic? Monday April 27, 2009Headlines refer to a global pandemic and the resultant panic. Panic generally results when there is a serious calamity, so I apologize if this post on associated links to the ancient world seems too, well, trivial. The idea of pandemics traces back to Greek history, with scientific writers of the Hippocratic school writing about epidemics, pandemics being broader versions of them, and also to Greek mythology. There is one particular deity that springs to mind in connection with the swine flu pandemic panic. Can you guess? The god Apollo is credited with shooting plague arrows, but I’m thinking of a more specifically panic-related and more mischievous god. The Gre
