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Free online webinar<br /><br />The UIC Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies invites you to join them for an online webinar<br /><br />Greek Medicine in a Time of Epidemics<br /><br />Thursday, October 28, 2021, at 4:00 pm CST<br /><br /><br />Dear Members:<br /><br />The UIC Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies is sponsoring the webinar Greek Medicine in a Time of Epidemics with Alain Touwaide, PhD. This timely presentation provides a look at how epidemics affected medicine and society in the ancient world. The presentation concentrates on the Plague of Justinian of the 6th century and investigates why it caught the world by surprise, how the Byzantine society reacted, and what impact it had on medicine. <br /><br />Click on the following link for more info and the Zoom instructions: <br />https://clasmed.uic.edu/events/classics-lecture-greek-medicine-in-a-time-of-epidemics/<br /><br />Hristos Stavrou<br />PAA Education/Cultural Chair<br />education-culture@pancretan.org