Vol. 15 (2021): XV International Symposium Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies : Literature and Pandemic. Historical and Thematic Experience
Quarantine and Isolation in the Literature

Plague in literature

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  • Eka Chkheidze
Eka Chkheidze
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature

Published 2021-12-20

Keywords

  • The Black Death,
  • Pandemic,
  • Literature

Abstract

 

The Black Death as God‘s Punishment in Ancient Literature The Black Death appears in literature as far back as ancient Greece. It is the driving force behind the story and the cause of the main conflict in the two fundamental texts in Homer‘s Iliad and Sophocles in Oedipus the King.

Time in the Renaissance or how a person behaves in an emergency Perspective changes significantly during the Renaissance. In one of the most important works of the Renaissance, the Black Death in Giovanni Boccaccio‘s Decameron is as horrific as it was in ancient Greece.

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