Alcibiades Didascalis
Alcibiades Didascalis is the main character in a series of cartoons depicting the history of civilization.
The authors are Clanet , Scardanelli , P. Haggerstein , Cornelius , Crane and Clapat. The latter also carries the drawings. The series was published by Athena Publishing.
Characters
- Alcibiades Didascalis is a professor of classics who dreams to communicate to his students his passion for history.
- Musculus is the mouse who accompany Alcibiades in his travels through time.
- Agenor is a physics professor who has a dream: to travel across the world in time through his terrible machine that will eventually develop.
- Caturix is Gauls , called the king of battle, gone to the capture of Alcibiades through time to impale his head on a pike.
Volumes
The Extraordinary adventures of Alcibiades Didascalis (with Clanet). The Greek , language and civilization of alpha to omega .
The story of a professor of Greek who, with the help of her colleague in physics and chemistry, will find the students mature and sit on the same benches themselves. To return to adulthood, he will undergo another experiment and serve as guinea pigs for a new invention of his colleague: a machine it will go back centuries to the origins of humanity and only in stages and strength of his knowledge he will regain his era. New Ulysses he crosses the entire history of the Greek world in an odyssey in space and time. Under the gaze of Einstein , Professor Didascalis find in a museum traces its voyage century of Pericles.
Alcibiades Didascalis in Romans (with Clanet)
Caption , Monarchy , Republic
Alcibiades Didascalis, professor of Latin , is not prepared to repeat the experience a step back in time as invited his colleague, Professor of Physics Agenor. An enormous volume of the Aeneid perched on a filing cabinet falls on his head and knocks him out. He was off in dream in early Rome which he revives the legendary era. He will have the unpleasant surprise to wake up in the machine of Professor Agenor which have led his students in his sleep and he can not escape this time for a new experience. It is teleported in 509 BC in a tomb in Etruscan , forced to relive the history of Rome after dreaming legend. By leaps and bounds over time, he traveled the story until he finds himself enlisted as legionnaires in the armies of the Consul Marius. This is the beginning of new adventures to be told in the second volume, devoted to the imperial period.
The Empire
Alcibiades Didascalis continues its journey through the Roman Empire from Caesar, Nero, or the last days of Pompeii and ending with the breakup of the empire.
Alcibiades Didascalis in Egypt (with Scardanelli)
The gods , the Nile , the Pharaoh , the Pyramids
On the trail of Champollion , Alcibiades Didascalis visits Egypt to find traces of its civilization. Hellenism which has brought us so much in fact to Egypt. Alcibiades and is convinced he wants to communicate his knowledge to his students. This time, he managed to escape the machine back in time to his colleague in physics, Agenor. But here in the desert, encounters a strange Alcibiades Egyptologist who offers him a cigar curious. The hero finds himself mysteriously projected in the meanders of the time and discovered the pantheon of Egyptian mythology. Shortly after browsing the world of pharaohs , Alcibiades Didascalis discovers the benefits of the Nile feeder and explains why Egypt is the gift of the Nile. He participated in the construction of pyramids , reveals the meaning of these tombs and a trip to the land of the dead. This first volume ends with the strange story of the magic book of Thoth , that nobody should read it.
From Nefertiti , Tutankhamen , Ramses ... to Queen Cleopatra
The journey time of heroes continues. Having experienced the horrors of mummification , Alcibiades Didascalis discover the splendor of the world of the pharaohs. Reliving the history of Egypt, Professor of Greek meeting soon all sorts of mythical figures he presents to the reader. It will then take it to the reign of Queen Cleopatra, who will go out with the world of the pharaohs. Regaining his time, Alcibiades attends the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun , archaeological treasure, by which the world of ancient Egypt will reappear and give birth to the legend of the curse of the pharaohs.
Alcibiades Didascalis in Gaul (with Skull)
The Celts in making Rome by the Gauls
Everything starts during a visit to the Natural History Museum and a visit to a room that would not exist. Alcibiades Didascalis Musculus and soon find themselves at the time of Proto-Celtic , with whom they will revive their migration across Europe. Invited into a Gallic village, our two heroes we have the morals and traditions of the Celts of Gaul. Alcibiades Didascalis want then meet with druids and will invite a large gathering of forest Carnutes. Possession of mysterious potions, he can make a journey to the land of gods and the dead and back. Back in the earthly world in Armorica , the land of menhirs and dolmens , Alcibiades Didascalis explain to the reader the various human sacrifices in force among the Gauls and escape itself little by the immolation. Arrived in a new village, he was explained the rite of severed heads among the Celts, before attending the founding of Massilia , and to meet Pytheas the Massaliotes. With his machine, Agenor find heroes and encouraged to join the expedition of the kings Bituriges , set out to conquer the world, who will dispatch the Gauls to Rome after the terrible battle of the Allia and the inexplicable defeat Roman armies.
"Vae Victis" of Brennus the adventures of proconsul Caesar in Gaul
Vae Victis ! Alcibiades Didascalis attends the capture of Rome, with the exception of the Capitol that will not be taken by the Gauls Brennos and payment of the ransom, before telling the Gallic expedition against Delphi , where another Brennus wants to plunder the place which all the holy offerings of all the cities of Greece and will challenge Apollo Pythian. The two heroes then present the reader with the kingdom of Galatians , the Celts of Asia, the adventure of the Gauls in Egypt, the love story of Camma , Gauls recruited as mercenaries throughout the Mediterranean world, fear that Gallic follow, the history of Cisalpine Gaul and the military expedition against Rome Carthaginian Hannibal in the Second Punic War. After discovering the empire of the kings Arverni , readers will witness the conquest of southern Transalpine Gaul by the Romans and the establishment of the first Roman province in Gaul: the Narbonne. The reader then discoveries Germanic peoples , before leaving to tell the story of the cursed gold of Toulouse and the strange fate of the consul Caepio. Having relived the invasions of the Cimbri , the Teutons and Helvetians , stage directions and Musculus traveling in Gaul at the time of Julius Caesar before accompanying the ambitious proconsul in his Gallic Wars. This second volume ends during the great Gallic revolt of the year 52 BC with the emergence of a new protagonist: Vercingetorix.
From the revolt of Vercingetorix in Gaul Roman
While Caesar was in Italy and that his ten legions retreated into their winter camps, where they are invincible, said the general uprising of Gaul under the command of Chief Chieftain Vercingetorix. Once again the revolt broke out in Carnutes where Alcibiades Didascalis found in a perilous situation. The sudden return of Caesar, his action in the Roman province of Narbonne , Vellaudunum , Cenabum , the fabulous seat Avaricum , Gergovie , confrontation of the army and legions of the Gauls are the steps that will lead to blockade of Alesia mean the weapons most glorious of Caesar, which we see at work the power of his military genius combined with the unmatched value of legions. But despite the disaster of Alesia, Celtic and Belgium are in turn were plundered. While Gaul seem to be "pacified", a small town is still opposed to the skilful conqueror. Uxellodunum toutjours resist the invader and the reader follows the struggle of the real village of indomitable Gauls who dared defy the Proconsul in last effort of resistance. The hairy Gaul is now a Roman province and the player will attend the Romanization of Gaul. But the story does not end with the Gallo-Roman and Roman vain attempts to conquer Germania. The two heroes relive the reader's military operations Caligula , the insurrection of the Celts of Britain , the Empire Gallic and civil wars which Gaul was the theater. After the period of military anarchy that gripped the Roman Empire , and Alcibiades Didascalis Musculus lead the reader to the terrible barbarian invasions.
Alcibiades Didascalis invasions and barbarian (with P. Haggerstein)
invasions of peoples siblings to the death of Attila
Musculus conducting an investigation to find Alcibiades Didascalis misplaced in time to the era of barbarian invasions. The famous philosopher mice visited at the Baron de Montesquieu , while writing his " Considerations on the causes of the greatness of the Romans and their decline. " Thus the reader will get acquainted with the Germanic tribes which were to be confronted the Roman Empire. You learn how Rome will solve this problem and how other barbarians will continually weaken the Roman Empire. Now these are people that are hitting new empire as a real groundswell: Alamanni , Franks , Saxons , Burgundians , Vandals , Goths - Visigoths and Ostrogoths. Their pressure is going to be so violent that it almost goes to pieces and move the Empire nearly two centuries his destiny. Agenor and then try to locate the robot Didacticator Prof. stage directions, it shows the reader how the Legion , the glory of the Roman armies, will be transformed and how the horse will soon become the queen of battles. The terrible defeat of the Emperor at Adrianople will definitely change the face of the Roman army and its relations with the barbarian peoples of the Empire, some of which will become federated. The incorporation of the Goths in the army she would make it invincible? Now, the Roman generals are leaders barbarians who oppose other barbarian chiefs. The reader will thus follow the fates of the Frank Arbogast , the Goth Gainas of Stilicho the Vandal , before reliving the making and pillage of Rome by Alaric , king of the Visigoths, and see Toulouse , capital of the kingdom of the Visigoths. To close this first volume, will Didascalis knowledge of an unknown race in Europe: Huns. The Patrice Aetius , "the last of the Romans," defend the Roman Empire and the teacher will attend to sudden changes caused by the hordes of Huns led by their Khan, Attila , the Scourge of God.
From taking Rome by Genseric , king of the Vandals , the death of Clovis , king of the Franks
The Roman Empire has changed. The fight against the barbarians, exhausting and relentless defense, dominates the life of the state since the second century AD. Since Constantine , Roman armies are known as formed Federated Barbarians, especially Germans. Already Julian was raised on the shield as a king Germain and the Emperor, dressed in the Germanic, finished himself by dressing in animal skins. Emprereur the death of Theodosius saw the final division of the Empire: Constantinople became the capital of the Eastern Empire , Rome was abandoned in favor of Milan and Ravenna , which became the capital of the empire West. If the Eastern Roman Empire will become very powerful, the Western Roman Empire is falling apart. Carthage was taken by the Vandals who have made it their capital. We find Agenor and his robot still in the footsteps of stage directions. Accompanied Caturix, Professor of Greek, always ready to relive adventures, embarked on the fleet Genseric , the powerful king of the Vandals, who sack Rome from ... The fall of the Roman Empire continues and heroes relive the last soubressauts of an empire that was hopelessly doomed to death. In 476 , the Skyr Odoacer file the fictitious emperor Romulus Augustus. The Visigoths then the kingdom is "Barbare" the most powerful Western Europe. Their king, Euric , who reigned from Pillars of Hercules to the Loire , is now the most feared Germanic prince. Did not count on Clovis , king of the Salian Franks , a man of sense and devoid of policy scrupulously. We will follow its inexorable rise, his struggle against Syagrius , King of the Romans in Gaul, the episode of vase of Soissons , the Battle of Tolbiac , his baptism, his struggles against the Burgundians and the reader will see how after the battle of Vouill , where the Visigoths of Alaric II was defeated, Clovis will aspire to hegemony over the Franks and to murder all the other Frankish kings. This is not the Franks and the Visigoths that hegemony will be reserved on the Gaul after the decomposition of the ancient world. Toulouse was looted and the treasure of the Visigoths, who died, will soon become part of the fabulous treasures to find. This second volume ends in 511 AD with the death of Clovis, the dynasty of the Merovingians. Perfidy, cruelty, lust will be the attributes of this dynasty and their history will be a succession of murders and hideous scenes that recount in great detail Gregory of Tours in his "History of the Franks.
Antony and Cleopatra (with Scardanelli)
Winner of the Battle of Philippi , where he finally defeated the Republicans in 42 BC , Antony became the new master of the East. The new mission it receives from the Senate is to reorganize the Roman East. Alcibiades Didascalis Musculus and then attended the famous meeting at Tarsus between Cleopatra , the all-powerful Queen of Egypt, and Marc Anthony, the former lieutenant and right arm of Caesar , Rome's new strongman. Shortly after this meeting Antony goes for "holiday Egyptian" in Alexandria , where the reader discovers what is now called the "Life inimitable". Seductive, beguiling, elusive, Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history. During the long absence in love with Anthony, the situation in Rome becomes very confused and we see soon organize a new division of the world with "Brindisi agreements" between Octavian and Antony. The two "heirs of Caesar" put aside their rivalry and became deaf brother. Anthony, in his new dream of Alexander the Great , conqueror of the world, is preparing to submit the East and to avenge the disaster of Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae.
Augustus and the founding of the Empire (with Scardanelli)
After the complete rupture between Antony and Octavian , the reader discovers how the "adopted son of Caesar" becomes "the avenger Octave of freedom" and how does a terrible propaganda war between the two men with the controversy surrounding Caesarion " the so-called son of Caesar "and" bewitching Cleopatra threatens Rome. We then see how Antony is reported by the Senate and enemy of Rome "how a war can be just" before attending the final clash between Antony and Octavian: 31 BC Actium will be a sea battle. Readers will relive the tragic events following the victory of Octavian and the flight of Antony and Cleopatra. Then there are the fights in Alexandria , the latest negotiations with the seductive Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra before deciding to leave life. The Roman Republic will not be restored, and Octave will impose its "universal kingship without the evidence." Egypt became a Roman province and the gold of Egypt will allow Octave to leave Rome of marble as he had promised. He who was born Octavian, who became Octavian, founded the Empire and became the emperor Caesar Augustus. The first of the emperors will experience a very long reign, and with Augustus, the Pax Romana succeeds to eighteen years of bloody civil war that Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar. This is a new history of Rome begins. Caesar Augustus in Rome will be adored and glorified in Egypt, Pharaoh Horus Augustus.
Gaius Julius Caesar and Cleopatra (with Scardanelli)
forthcoming.
Alcibiades Didascalis and Gaius Julius Caesar (with Scardanelli)
forthcoming.
The extraordinary adventures of Alcibiades Didascalis at Middle Age
several volumes forthcoming.
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