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

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       Padraic Colum

      The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4064066099909

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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Part I. The Voyage to Colchis

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I. The Youth Jason

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      A MAN in the garb of a slave went up the side of that mountain that is all covered with forest, the Mountain Pelion. He carried in his arms a little child.

      When it was full noon the slave came into a clearing of the forest so silent that it seemed empty of all life. He laid the child down on the soft moss, and then, trembling with the fear of what might come before him, he raised a horn to his lips and blew three blasts upon it.

      Then he waited. The blue sky was above him, the great trees stood away from him, and the little child lay at his feet. He waited, and then he heard the thud-thud of great hooves. And then from between the trees he saw coming toward him the strangest of all beings, one who was half man and half horse; this was Chiron the centaur.

      Chiron came toward the trembling slave. Greater than any horse was Chiron, taller than any man. The hair of his head flowed back into his horse’s mane, his great beard flowed over his horse’s chest; in his man’s hand he held a great spear.

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      Not swiftly he came, but the slave could see that in those great limbs of his there was speed like to the wind’s. The slave fell upon his knees. And with eyes that were full of majesty and wisdom