The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

by Padraic Colum

Contents

• [Part I. The Voyage to Colchis]
• [I. The Youth Jason]
• [II. King Pelias]
• [III. The Golden Fleece]
• [IV. The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ship]
• [V. The Argo]
• [The Beginning of Things]
• [VI. Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss]
• [VII. King Phineus]
• [VIII. King Phineus’s Counsel; The Landing in Lemnos]
• [IX. The Lemnian Maidens]
• [Demeter and Persephone]
• [Atalanta’s Race]
• [X. The Departure from Lemnos]
• [The Golden Maid]
• [XI. The Passage of the Symplegades]
• [XII. The Mountain Caucasus]
• [Prometheus]
• [Part II. The Return to Greece]
• [I. King Æetes]
• [II. Medea the Sorceress]
• [III. The Winning of the Golden Fleece]
• [IV. The Slaying of Apsyrtus]
• [V. Medea Comes to Circe]
• [VI. In the Land of the Phæacians]
• [VII. They Come to the Desert Land]
• [VIII. The Carrying of the Argo]
• [The Story of Perseus]
• [IX. Near to Iolcus Again]
• [Part III. The Heroes of the Quest]
• [I. Atalanta the Huntress]
• [II. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea]
• [III. Theseus and the Minotaur]
• [IV. The Life and Labors of Heracles]
• [The Battle of the Frogs and Mice]
• [V. Admetus]
• [VI. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead]
• [VII. Jason and Medea]

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Illustrations

• [Jason and Medea]
• [the Argo]
• [Hylas]
• [Persephone and Aidoneus]
• [Atalanta’s Last Race]
• [Prometheus]
• [The Field of the Dragon’s Teeth]
• [Perseus and Andromeda]

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Part I. The Voyage to Colchis