The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived before Achilles
by Padraic Colum
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Description: A lively account of the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece, beginning with the construction of the Argo and the gathering of the heroes. Further adventures of many of the Argonauts are also recounted, including Theseus and the Minotaur, and Heracles and His Labors. A book sure to delight younger readers!
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Table of Contents
PART I. THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS
1. The Youth Jason
2. King Pelias
3. The Golden Fleece
4. The Assembling of the Heroes
5. The Argo
6. The Beginning of Things 7. Polydeuces' Victory and Heracles' Loss
8. King Phineus
9. King Phineus's Counsel; the Landing in Lemnos
10. The Lemnian Maidens
11. Demeter and Persephone
12. Atalanta's Race
13. The Departure from Lemnos
14. The Golden Maid
15. The Passage of the Symplagades
16. The Mountain Caucasus
17. Prometheus
PART II. THE RETURN TO GREECE
18. King Aeetes
19. Medea the Sorceress
20. The Winning of the Golden Fleece
21. The Slaying of Apsyrtus
22. Medea Comes to Circe
23. In the Land of the Phaeacians
24. They Come to the Desert Land
25. The Carrying of the Argo
26. The Story of Perseus
27. Near to Iolcus Again
PART III. THE HEROES OF THE QUEST
28. Atalanta the Huntress
29. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea
30. Theseus and the Minotaur
31. The Life and Labors of Heracles
32. The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
33. Admetus
34. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down
35. Jason and Medea
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