

With the emperor's death in 161 CE the throne Of uninterrupted peace in most parts of the Mediterranean world its cities had grown to unprecedented size and enjoyed their accumulated wealth.

In the mid 2nd century CE, during the largely peaceful reign of emperor Antoninus Pius, the Roman Empire arguable reached the peak of its military and economic power. We deiced to try this with the Antonine Plague, a large scale outbreak of smallpox that ravaged the Roman world in the last third of the 2nd century CE.

Their goal was to further the understanding how to prevent this, but the same methodology could be used to better understand related problems from Part of the conference were several talks from scientists modeling the spread ofĮpidemics on modern transportation networks. In 2010ĭaniel and me were attending the annual spring conference of the DPG (German Physical Society) in Regensburg. This time we want to show some of our own research which I've already hinted at multiple times, the simulation of the Antonine Plague on the road and sea network of the Roman Empire.
