Guest:\xa0Kyle Harper\xa0is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of\xa0The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire\xa0(Princeton);\xa0From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity,\xa0and his latest,\xa0Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (Princeton).\xa0\nThe post How Disease Shaped the Modern World [Rebroadcast] appeared first on KPFA.