Regarding how historian should chronicle a plague

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What common assumptions guide the Thucydides and Procopius readings regarding how a historian should chronicle a plague? What different assumptions do they possess about both human behavior and the role divine forces play in human history? How do both historians differ from the approach used by Shih Tainan?

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