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The heroes who were aboard started up, astonished to see the Fleece that shone as with the lightning of Zeus.
—Part II, Chap. III.
Padraic Colum
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived before Achilles.
 
Padraic Colum
 
A classic retelling of ancient myth for younger readers by a preeminent poet and illustrator.
 
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATED BY WILLY POGÁNY
 
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1922
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000
 
 
    I. The Voyage to Colchis
    1. The Youth Jason
    2. King Pelias
    3. The Golden Fleece
    4. The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ship
    5. The Argo
      a. The Beginning of Things
    6. Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss
    7. King Phineus
    8. King Phineus’s Counsel; the Landing in Lemnos
    9. The Lemnian Maidens
      a. Demeter and Persephone
      1. I.
      2. II.
      3. III.
      4. IV.
      b.Atalanta’s Race
    10. The Departure from Lemnos
      a. The Golden Maid
    11. The Passage of the Symplegades
    12. The Mountain Caucasus.
      a.Prometheus
     
    II. The Return to Greece
    1. King Æetes
    2. Medea the Sorceress
    3. The Winning of the Golden Fleece
    4. The Slaying of Apsyrtus
    5. Medea Comes to Circe
    6. In the Land of the Phæacians
    7. They Come to the Desert Land
    8. The Carrying of the Argo.
      a.The Story of Perseus
    9. Near to Iolcus Again
     
    III. The Heroes of the Quest
    1. Atalanta the Huntress.
      a.I.
      b.II.
      c.III.
    2. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea.
      a.I.
      b.II.
      c.III.
    3. Theseus and the Minotaur.
      a.I.
      b.II.
      c.III.
      d.IV.
      e.V.
      f.VI.
      g.VII.
      h.VIII.
    4. The Life and Labors of Heracles
      a.I.
      b.II.
      c.The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
    5. Admetus.
      a.I.
      b.II.
      c.III.
    6. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went down to the World of the Dead
    7. Jason and Medea
 
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