MC MytholOG - Midas, Medea, Jonah*, ATOWT, Last Gasp, Homeric, Icarus, Murph*, Herc, Orpheus, Dayz*

This is an unbelievable tale about a young boy, Billy, and a retired old horse, Murphy, during a dangerous snowstorm. Billy's younger sister, Addie, has broken her leg falling through some lake ice. Billy, and his father and uncle, must get her to safety as quickly as possible, but where is safety in a blizzard of epic proportions? And what does any of this have to do with the unbelievable Murphy?...

In this new and improved version of Act V, Sir Brett Ewer takes on the role of mighty Minos, playing the King of Crete with authority. The story line remains the same, viz., This final episode of Icarus, Son of Daedalus is the aftermath to the fall of Icarus - Act V and an Epilogue. No, Daedalus does not fall, but what does he do after his son’s demise? Does he fly on? Although he grieves for...

Spoiler alert: Icarus dies! This is the episode we all know and love (?). With time on their hands in the tower of Crete, Icarus and Daedalus assess their situation and try to figure a way to escape their confinement. Inspiration comes at last, and, despite a few hiccups and some friction between father and son during the process, they make extensive preparations to fly the coop on wings of their...

In this episode of Icarus, son of Daedalus, we hear of the consequences of defying King Minos. In Act III Daedalus gets thrown in the maze for his instrumental help satisfying Queen Pasiphae's abnormal desire for the bull from the sea. Icarus, in an unusual fit of loyalty, dutifully joins his father in the maze.  Meanwhile, her desire slaked, Queen Pasiphae herself defies Minos and helps fath...

In this episode of Icarus, son of Daedalus , you’ll hear more backstory as to what led to Icarus and Daedalus being imprisoned in the tower by king Minos. At this point the young Icarus is no longer obsessed with Pasiphae, which is a relief to all, yet he is not quite grounded and is now all hot and bothered for Doula, the maidservant who helped him get over the Queen.  Pasiphae’s obsess...

Everyone has heard about the fall of Icarus, right? The poster boy for adolescent heedlessness? But what do we really know about the young man beyond his fall? This episode of Icarus, son of Daedalus explores the backstory by covering the difficult youth of Icarus on the island Crete, where his father Daedalus is a virtual prisoner of the powerful King Minos, and his close and fraught relationship...

This is just the previously released four episodes of MC's Homeric Cycle combined into one episode for your listening convenience.  In these podcasts, you’ll hear the Homeric cycle in a generally linear, episodic, but decidedly non-academic and at times rather breezy version of Homer’s epic saga, as if MC were a Greek rhapsode narrating it to you around a campfire outside the classroom, sort...

This episode highlights events outside of the scope of the Iliad but which are definitely within the Homeric cycle. First and foremost, Achilles’s death must follow hard on the heels, as it were, of Hector’s. But then also questions you may have about the various other participants: Menelaus, Agamemnon, Philoctetes, Diomedes, Helen, Paris, Priam, Hecuba, Cassandra, Criseis & Briseis. Not to me...

Much of this episode hews to the story line of the Iliad, meaning the focus is on the latter stages of the rage of Achilles and its tragic consequences but ultimately also its glorious aftermath. Patrokles and Hector are key elements but an outraged river also makes an appearance? The destructive nature of excess and the paramount importance of honor pulse throughout this episode. Harrowing or sat...

As promised previously in Episode 1, hear the Homeric cycle in a generally linear, episodic but decidedly non-academic and at times rather breezy and sometimes risqué version of Homer’s epic story. As advertised, Episode 1 told of the Golden Apple of Discord, the Judgment of Paris, Helen of Sparta and the enlistment of Achilles and Odysseus into the Greek war effort. As anticipated, Episode 2 move...

Greek mythology is strange stuff. No less so in the works of Homer, but much of it is inaccessible because it's written in Greek after all! But you may still be curious about the Trojan War, the Iliad , the Odyssey and Homer and all the strange doings and characters therein - Achilles, Cassandra, Penelope, Ajax, Diomedes, Odysseus, Thetis, Eris, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, just to name a few? In t...

Everyone has heard of the modern Olympics and all the drama therein. Well, before all that, there was Mount Olympus of course, home to the classical Greek gods and goddesses. Everyone's heard of Zeus, the most powerful of the Olympians, and of Athena, the wisest of the gods, and perhaps some others, but you've probably not heard them quite like this.  At any rate, in this episode of Last Gasp...

Act II continues the saga with the three rebels' returning from subduing almighty Zeus. As the gods and godesses are in the throes of determining who will rule Olympus in lieu of He Who Must Not Be Named, lo and behold, the god of thunder himself returns, and now that he is unbound, he is raging! Will the rebels get their comeuppance? Will Hades return? Will order ever be restored? Will Hephaestus...

You've all heard of the Olympics and all the drama therein. Well, before all that, there was Mount Olympus of course, home to the Greek gods and goddesses. You've probably heard of Zeus, the most powerful of the Olympians, and of Athena, the wisest of the gods, and perhaps some others. But how well do you really know the denizens of Olympus? Did you know the gods outnumber the goddesses? Well, tha...

You've heard of the Olympics and all the drama therein. Well, before all that, there was Olympus of course. You've probably heard of Zeus, the most powerful of the Olympians, and of Athena, the wisest of the gods, and perhaps some others. But how well do you really know the denizens of Mount Olympus? Did you know the gods outnumber the goddesses? Well, that explains a lot, doesn't it? Did you know...

Act V has been updated with yet another cameo performance!  The set up, however, is as before. In this busy episode, Act V, the surreal, open ended conclusion to MC’s Jonah , our great prophet has begun in earnest his protest of the Lord’s sparing of the newly penitent Ninevites. For some reason, despite his reservations about choosing Jonah in the first place, the Lord shows pity on Jonah ag...

In this episode of Jonah , our hero (?), after repenting and being spat out ashore by the great fish, makes the arduous journey to Ninevah where he preaches as if his life depended on it. Meanwhile, with son in tow, his wife, Abigail ( another cameo by the incomparable Jessica Childs ) has also made the trek to demand an accounting for his behavior and a road map for their future together. Surpris...

Granted there are other matters to consider these days (such as the scourge that has divided our country), but if you need a brief break, give an ear to MC's latest podcast - Jonah, Act III .  Surreal as it is, this is the part of the book everyone knows: Jonah’s attempt to escape the Lord by hiding aboard a ship to Tarshish; the Lord’s targeted storm that flushes him out from belowdecks and...

In this episode the Lord catches up to Cain, now Jonah, and speaks sense to him, making Jonah an offer he should not refuse -  a quid pro quo of tat removal for a preaching stint in distant Nineveh.  Jonah deliberates with himself, his wife Abigail, son Enoch, and best friend Nathan, before rashly deciding to head to Joppa for a fast boat to Tarshish, presumably beyond the Lord's reach....

And now for something completely different? We have all heard of the story Jonah and the Whale , even if only throught Disney via Pinochio. But what do we really know of this minor prophet of the Old Testament? Well, my Jonah is a Pythonesque take on the book of the Bible in which the epon is a repeat offending sinner, a bit like Midas but a very different animal altogether. I have hewn to the gen...

In this culminating episode of Medea , Jason must face the full force of his wife Medea's rage over his imprudent desire to marry the princess Glauke of Corinth and abandon the woman who had helped him succeed in his quote unquote heroic quest for the Golden Fleece. The end is not pretty but that is the point as Medea yet again shatters the norms of behavior expected of women in the classical worl...

In this episode our power couple hits some bumps in the road. Through Medea's magic cauldron sleight of hand, Jason and Medea ascend the throne that Pelias had previously promised and that was rightfully Jason's, but the townspeople drive them out because of the suspicious circumstances of their accession to the throne. Pariahs again, Jason and Medea approach Corinth where it appears their hard ti...

Having finessed their escape from King Aeetes, Jason and Medea return to Jason's home with the object of their quest in hand - the golden fleece! Jason's wicked stepfather, the usurping King Pelias, had promised the kingdom for the fleece. Will he honor his promise to cede the throne to Jason ( and Medea )? If he does not honor that promise - and he won't of course because he's one of those really...

Again with Medea's magic, Jason and Medea steal the fleece from the serpent that guarded it for Aeetes. Furious at having been betrayed again by his own daughter, Aeetes and his armada set off in pursuit of the Argo and the stolen talisman. Ethnocentrically, the Argonauts thought their ship was the fastest ever, yet Aeetes's boats are poised to overtake them. Things do not look good for our newly...

Everyone knows the cautionary tale of Midas and the golden touch, Act I, but this Midas has the backstory as well – what the king had done to earn his foolish wish for the proverbial touch. In Midas's celebrated rose garden two laborers stumble upon the passed out body of the old satyr Silenus and take him to their king, Midas, in hopes of a reward. Midas offers Silenus a place to stay as he dries...