The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

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Padraic Colum. The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Table of Contents

PART I. The Voyage to Colchis

PART II. The Return To Greece

PART III. The Heroes of the Quest

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. I

II

III

IV

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 PHAEACIANS

VII. THEY COME TO THE DESERT LAND

VIII. THE CARRYING OUT OF THE ARGO

THE STORY OF PERSEUS

IX. NEAR TO IOLCUS AGAIN

PART III. The Heroes of the Quest

I. ATALANTA THE HUNTRESS

I

II

III

II. PELEUS AND HIS BRIDE FROM THE SEA

I

II

III

III. THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IV. THE LIFE AND LABORS OF HERACLES

I

II

THE BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE

V. ADMETUS

I

II

III

VI. HOW ORPHEUS THE MINSTREL WENT DOWN TO THE WORLD OF THE DEAD

VII. JASON AND MEDEA

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Padraic Colum

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Around these figures were heads of snakes, heads with black jaws and glittering eyes, twelve heads such as might affright any man. And on other parts of the shield were shown the horses of Ares, the grim god of war. The figure of Ares himself was shown also. He held a spear in his hand, and he was urging the warriors on.

Around the inner rim of the shield the sea was shown, wrought in white metal. Dolphins swam in the sea, fishing for little fishes that were shown there in bronze. Around the rim chariots were racing along with wheels running close together; there were men fighting and women watching from high towers. The awful figure of the Darkness of Death was shown there, too, with mournful eyes and the dust of battles upon her shoulders. The outer rim of the shield showed the Stream of Ocean, the stream that encircles the world; swans were soaring above and swimming on its surface.

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