The Writings of Geoff Micks

An end-of-season extra episode offering some updates on the podcast, background on the content, suggestions for additional reading material, and also some much-deserved credit to the people who helped make Season One and the book it was based upon possible.  Based on the historical notes and acknowledgements on Beginning by Geoff Micks.     For…

(~1170 BCE – ? · The Eastern Mediterranean & Parts Unknown & 2015 CE · Northern India)  The Narrator remembers one of the darkest times of his life when he was enslaved for many decades by all-but-forgotten raiders remembered as ‘The Sea Peoples’ during the Bronze Age Collapse. Meanwhile, the young woman he fears will…

(~1190 – ~1170 BCE · The Aegean)  The Narrator talks about the truth as he remembers it behind The Iliad and The Odyssey based on the time he spent with people whose legends have been told and retold for more than three thousand years now.   Based on Chapter 14 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.…

(1190 BCE · The Aegean)  The Narrator talks about the small, unknowing part he played in setting off what would be remembered as the Trojan War.   Based on Chapter 13 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.   The Mask of Agamemnon (although more accurately an earlier ruler or important figure of Mycenae). Discovered by Heinrich…

(~1210 BCE · Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea, & Parts in Between)  The Narrator talks about the Bronze Age’s Black Sea tin trade, and a memorable business deal with a powerful man among the Cimmerians, one of the many Steppe peoples who lived along southern coast of what is now Ukraine.   Based on Chapter…

(~1600 BCE · Crete & the Aegean)  The Narrator talks about the volcanic eruption of modern-day Santorini, and the tsunami that destroyed what today is called the Minoan civilization.   Based on Chapter 11 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.   For more information on this events in this week’s episode than could be delivered in…

(~1650 BCE · Crete, the Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean)  The Narrator tells of the fateful flight of Icarus, son of Daedalus, brother of Iapyx, and spurned suitor of Ariadne. It bears little resemblance to what Greek myth-makers would conjure up in centuries still to come.   Based on Chapter 10 of Beginning by Geoff…

(~1650 BCE · Crete, the Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean)  The Narrator tells of the early days of his friendship with Daedalus and his sons Icarus and Iapyx, who are not as the myths remember them.  Based on Chapter 9 of Beginning by Geoff Micks. Please note: The ending is a deliberate editing choice, not an…