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

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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Padraic Colum

Published by Good Press, 2020

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On the day that the messengers had set out to bring through Greece the word of Jason’s going forth in quest of the Golden [pg 21] Fleece the woodcutters made their way up into the forests of Mount Pelion; they began to fell trees for the timbers of the ship that was to make the voyage to far Colchis.

Great timbers were cut and brought down to Pagasæ, the harbor of Iolcus. On the night of the day he had helped to bring them down Jason had a dream. He dreamt that She whom he had seen in the forest ways and afterward by the River Anaurus appeared to him. And in his dream the goddess bade him rise early in the morning and welcome a man whom he would meet at the city’s gate—a tall and gray-haired man who would have on his shoulders tools for the building of a ship.

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