The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
by Padraic Colum
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About this eBook
- Author
- Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Argonauts (Greek mythology) -- Juvenile literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 37881
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37881
- Release Date
- October 29, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Contents — Illustrations — Part I. The Voyage to Colchis
- 2.I. The Youth Jason
- 3.II. King Pelias
- 4.III. The Golden Fleece
- 5.IV. The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ship
- 6.V. The Argo — The Beginning of Things
- 7.VI. Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss
- 8.VII. King Phineus
- 9.VIII. King Phineus’s Counsel; The Landing in Lemnos
- 10.IX. The Lemnian Maidens — Demeter and Persephone — Atalanta’s Race
- 11.X. The Departure from Lemnos — The Golden Maid
- 12.XI. The Passage of the Symplegades
- 13.XII. The Mountain Caucasus — Prometheus — Part II. The Return to Greece
- 14.I. King Æetes
- 15.II. Medea the Sorceress
- 16.III. The Winning of the Golden Fleece
- 17.IV. The Slaying of Apsyrtus
- 18.V. Medea Comes to Circe
- 19.VI. In the Land of the Phæacians
- 20.VII. They Come to the Desert Land
- 21.VIII. The Carrying of the Argo — The Story of Perseus
- 22.IX. Near to Iolcus Again — Part III. The Heroes of the Quest
- 23.I. Atalanta the Huntress
- 24.II. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea
- 25.III. Theseus and the Minotaur
- 26.IV. The Life and Labors of Heracles — The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
- 27.V. Admetus
- 28.VI. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead
- 29.VII. Jason and Medea — Transcriber’s Note
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