http://www.ftg-comic.com/2009/09/01/index.php
And so we find ourselves in the time of Alexander the Great as he is pondering whether to continue his invasion of India or turn back and return to Macedonia. Wonder how that’s going to turn out… maybe Episode 247: Calisthenics, has somethin’ to say about it…
– The Count and Geoff
Callisthenes was just one in a string of people who pissed off Alexander in one fashion or another and found themselves executed. Usually, the executees were people who threatened Alexander’s primacy in the army (Philotas, Parmenion) against whom Alexander would trump up false charges of conspiracy, force a military court to return a guilty verdict, and skip promptly to the execution. Callisthenes, his court historian, was executed basically for Speaking Ill of the monarch. As Alexander ordered reverence to be paid to him, Callisthenes saw it as the beginning of tyranny, and said as much, and sooooo he got deaded. He probably overstated his case, but if every academic were executed for producing an over-blown thesis things would be, well, actually probably better, but that’s not the point… hmmmmm….
– Count Dolby von Luckner
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2009/08/27/index.php
So, we’ve had our fun in the Victorian Age. Hung out with Wagner. Passed the time with James Clerk Maxwell. Sang a couple lines with Queen Vic herself. But Ireland appears to be cleanly safe from the danger of blowing up, so it’s time to move on… but to where and WHEN? Find out in Episode 246: A Soothing Touch!
– The Count and Geoff