Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

by Pádraic Colum

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Short Stories

29 chapters7h 33mEnglish1921

About this book

This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, and others. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Note: Section 25 was replaced on June 2, 2020. The original file was missing the second portion of the text. The new file has the section in its entirety with a different reader for the second portion.

Chapters (29)

1Part 1 Ch. 1: The Youth Jason

770

2Part 1 Ch. 2: King Pelias

190

3Part 1 Ch. 3: The Golden Fleece

501

4Part 1 Ch. 4: The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ships

643

5Part 1 Ch. 5: The Argo

1346

6Part 1 Ch. 6: Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss

650

7Part 1 Ch. 7: King Phineus

597

8Part 1 Ch. 8: King Phineus’s Counsel/The Landing in Lemnos

526

9Part 1 Ch. 9: The Lemnian Maidens

2380

10Part 1 Ch. 10: The Departure From Lemnos

1351

11Part 1 Ch. 11: The Passage of the Symplegades

326

12Part 1 Ch. 12: The Mountain Caucasus

927

13Part 2 Ch. 1: King Aetes

772

14Part 2 Ch. 2: Medea the Sorceress

880

15Part 2 Ch. 3: The Winning of the Golden Fleece

656

16Part 2 Ch. 4: The Slaying of Apsyrtus

440

17Part 2 Ch. 5: Medea Comes to Circe

315

18Part 2 Ch. 6: In the Land of the Phaeacians

583

19Part 2 Ch. 7: They Come to the Desert Land

408

20Part 2 Ch. 8: The Carrying Out of the Argo

2020

21Part 2 Ch. 9: Near to Iolcus Again

445

22Part 3 Ch. 1: Atalanta the Huntress

804

23Part 3 Ch. 2: Peleus and his Bride from the Sea

1240

24Part 3 Ch. 3: Theseus and the Minotaur

1994

25Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 1: The Life and Labors of Heracles

2609

26Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 2: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice

1042

27Part 3 Ch. 5: Admetus

858

28Part 3 Ch. 6: How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead

470

29Part 3 Ch. 7: Jason and Medea

1459

Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

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Chapters (29)

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