Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

In 1348, the Black Death, a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed thousands over the following decade.

They first try to establish themselves in Crete, where Dardanus had once settled, but find it ravaged by the same plague that had driven Idomeneus away.

He died after succumbing to a smallpox plague that ravaged the provinces of the Empire.

Although never acknowledged by Matheson, it is worth noting that Mary Shelley published a novel entitled The Last Man that told the story of a future world ravaged by a plague and the last solitary inhabitant.

It is thought that Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Chapter XXIII ) includes a reference to the Battle of Poitiers: "... a dreadful plague of Saracens ravaged France with miserable slaughter, but they not long after in that country received the punishment due to their wickedness ".

While the plague ravaged Ingolstadt, Celtes taught at Heidelberg.

The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague.

However in 1720, the city was ravaged by the black plague, coming from Marseilles.

A plague epidemic ravaged Vienna in 1679, killing nearly a third of its population.

Disillusioned knight Antonius Block ( Max von Sydow ) and his squire Jöns ( Gunnar Björnstrand ) return after fighting in the Crusades and find Denmark being ravaged by the plague.

In René Girard's book The Scapegoat, Guillaume de Machaut's work is shown to instigate violence against Jews, as he accuses them of poisoning wells and causing the black plague which ravaged France in 1349.

Rossi probably died either in the invasion of Austrian troops, who defeated the Gonzagas and destroyed the Jewish ghetto in Mantua, or in the subsequent plague which ravaged the area.

Rome was wracked with bouts of plague, and Saracens operating freely out of Sardinia ravaged the Tyrrhenian coasts.

The town became the centre of Bavarian court life, but was short lived when the town was ravaged by the plague in 1599.

During the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ) both Swedish and Imperial troops plundered, ravaged and burnt the land, while plague epidemics in 1626 and 1631 killed much of the populace.

In addition to war, the plague, malaria and typhoid ravaged the city.

Verdelot may have been killed in the siege of Florence ( 1529 – 1530 ) or in the simultaneous plague that ravaged the city, since there is no definite evidence that he was alive after 1530.

In 1348, the city was hit by the Black Death – a lethal bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the mid-14th century.

Soon after, D ' ni is ravaged by a plague created by a man named A ' Gaeris.

In 1602, angelica was introduced in Niort, which had just been ravaged by the plague.

However, during the " Five Year Gap ", Earth's government became hostile to the Legion, and Garth became incapacitated from the Validus plague which ravaged his native Winath.

Meanwhile, Castile was ravaged by a plague that had arrived by ship from the north, losing half a million people.

Mursili assumed the Hittite throne after the premature death of Arnuwanda II who, like their father, fell victim to the plague which ravaged the Hatti in the 1320s BC.

* An outbreak of a plague hits Athens and the disease ravages the densely packed city ( modern DNA analyses of material from ancient cemeteries suggest the mortal disease may have been typhus ).

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

When the plague strikes, he finds himself trapped in a city with which he feels he has no connection.

He decides to stay in the city and continue to help fight the plague, saying that he would feel ashamed of himself if he pursued a merely private happiness.

Before the plague came, he liked to associate with the Spanish dancers and musicians in the city.

The last known incident of using plague corpses for biological warfare purposes occurred in 1710, when Russian forces attacked the Swedes by flinging plague-infected corpses over the city walls of Reval ( Tallinn ).

The account indicates that the Philistine city and its political territory were stricken with a " ravaging of mice " and a plague, bringing death to a large segment of the population.

However, many people escaped again from the city, and there were several outbreaks of plague, so that in 1459 Mehmet allowed the deported Greeks to come back to the city.

Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.

The city had a population of 21, 000 in 1640 before a plague in 1649 – 51 wiped out almost half of the city's inhabitants.

His education there ended when plague struck the city about 1483, and his mother, who had moved there to provide a home for her sons, died of the infection.

By July 1665, plague was in the city of London itself.

Also, most plague cases were found in the suburbs of the city and not in the centre of London that was affected by the Fire.

Boccaccio returned to Florence in early 1341, avoiding the plague in that city of 1340, but also missing the visit of Petrarch to Naples in 1341.

Thucydides describes the panic caused by the plague, possibly an epidemic of typhoid which struck the besieged city in 430 BC.

On arriving in Attica, he asked Zeus to punish the city, and the god struck it with plague and hunger.

Athenian manpower was correspondingly drastically reduced and even foreign mercenaries refused to hire themselves out to a city riddled with plague.

The first lazaret was founded by Venice in 1403, on a small island adjoining the city ; in 1467 Genoa followed the example of Venice ; and in 1476 the old leper hospital of Marseille was converted into a plague hospital.

The disease-carrying fleas from the bodies would then infest the city, and the plague would spread allowing the city to be easily captured, although this transmission mechanism was not known at the time.

In 1346 the bodies of Mongol warriors of the Golden Horde who had died of plague were thrown over the walls of the besieged Crimean city of Kaffa ( now Feodosiya ).

The city was struck by two ruinous earthquakes in 1542 and 1693, and a plague in 1729.

During the ensuing Thirty Years ' War, the city was occupied by Saxon and Swedish troops, and lost 18, 000 of 40, 000 citizens to plague.

Y. pestis is potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare in history, when in 1347 plague victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa, a town currently known as Feodosiya located in present day Ukraine.