Sup guys, I'm doing a presentation on Thucydides, specifically the portion on the plague of Athens. As such, I was wondering if anybody have a sound clip of the MBC commentators screaming "PLAGUUUUUUU" on hand.
You can also probably help me figure out what kinds of stuff I should put into the presentation, like what the Plague did to people, how it affected the war, what other people said about it, etc. etc. etc.
But the audio clip is a higher priority atm. So please halp.
Are you sure that a sound clip with the MBC commentators screaming PLAGUUUUUUUU is appropriate to that kind of topic? War and Plague are rather serious topics, and I doubt many will understand the reference.
On January 20 2009 06:44 Aesop wrote: Are you sure that a sound clip with the MBC commentators screaming PLAGUUUUUUUU is appropriate to that kind of topic? War and Plague are rather serious topics, and I doubt many will understand the reference.
This. Anyone who doesn't know the reference(which more likely than not means the entire audience) is not going to understand and just think you're trying too hard or something.
He's looking for an audio clip, I'd assume that if he knew how to get it from a Youtube video himself he would've simply searched for the video and done it already.
On January 20 2009 06:53 Ver wrote: I love how everyone just ignores what he asks for and attempts to critique instead.
Well, if someone asks for something, you either give it to him or you tell him "you probably don't *really* want this". To me that's a valid response as well.
On January 20 2009 06:44 Aesop wrote: Are you sure that a sound clip with the MBC commentators screaming PLAGUUUUUUUU is appropriate to that kind of topic? War and Plague are rather serious topics, and I doubt many will understand the reference.
Considering my professor let me write three essays about 300 was more historically accurate than Herodotus, and gave me highest marks on all of them, I think I can get away with this small bit of amusement. Especially because all the prior presentations have been a snorefest.
More importantly I go to University of Chicago, where if anything we have an awful lot of geeks who would laugh at some silliness on a serious topic.
On January 20 2009 06:53 Ver wrote: I love how everyone just ignores what he asks for and attempts to critique instead.
On January 20 2009 07:49 Empyrean wrote: Haha, if I had to guess any university where something like that'd be frowned upon, I would have immediately guessed Chicago XD
lololol
times have changed
instead of being a very serious, studious, school, we now have just random geeky kids whom know a lot of shit but have too low grades/sats to go to ivies, etc. So we just fuck around usually and get bad grades as a result.
On January 20 2009 06:26 Caller wrote: You can also probably help me figure out what kinds of stuff I should put into the presentation, like what the Plague did to people, how it affected the war, what other people said about it, etc. etc. etc.
Are you seriously asking for help on something you should be doing yourself?
I took this class last quarter, pretty decent class.. anyways..
I suggest having a background to the Plague. Athens went to war with I believe Sparta and his allies. The war strategy for Athens was to place the citizens in the Long Walls. I mean a shit ton of people in a rather cramped space so that each person had roughly a 4x4 feet space. It's like a defiler plaguing a terran ball. The result is a rape of easily spread disease, I believe 25% of the population died here to the plague, which to this day is unknown as to exactly what it was. I don't remember his name but some Athenian commander gave his speech here about the braveness of Athen's fighters and such before he himself also died to the plague.
The plague pretty much decreased morale in the war as a whole. The killing of citizens as well as the belief that this was brought on by the Gods (I think).
Yeah I could simply find my books and give you a more through answer but that should get you started. Don't take everything I say word for word either since I might be slightly wrong.
Was this the Pelopennesian War? I completely forget