Re: Colchis in Greek Myth

Paolo Castagno p.castagno at libero.it
Fri Sep 6 18:22:33 CEST 2002


> Note that the Uncle Scrooge gag is based on the legend about the
> reward that the inventor of chess is supposed to have asked from the
> king/emperor/whatever for whom he invented the game: one grain of whea
t
> for the first square, two for the second, etc. The emperor agreed at
> first, only to realize that all the wheat in the world would not be
> enough to pay the inventor. 

And this very gag was described in Dalmasso/Scala 's story I TL 1068-A
 http://coa.duckburg.dk/coa/c1/story.php/0/I+TL+1068-A/

Ciao,

  - Paolo

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