The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new scrutiny of ancient plagues. In the past two years, scholars of the ancient world, and others, have produced numerous articles and blogs, in both academic and public venues, about how the current worldwide disease outbreak can give us new perspectives on the writings of the past, and vice versa. These recent assessments have been insightful, personal, clever, cathartic, and enlightening; they examine COVID-19 and its ancient parallels in light of modern ideas of religion, race, politics, and personal relationships. These studies have dealt with past historical and mythical accounts, both medieval and ancient, including the “Big Three” Greek plague narratives: Apollo’s infliction of the plague on the Achaians in Iliad 1, Sophocles’ portrayal of the Theban pestilence in Oedipus Tyrannus, and especially Thucydides’ description of the plague at Athens.