THE GOLDEN FLEECE
AND THE HEROES WHO
LIVED BEFORE ACHILLES

BY PADRAIC COLUM

ILLUSTRATIONS BY

WILLY POGANY

THE • MACMILLAN • COMPANY • NEW YORK

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1921

CONTENTS   PART I. THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS. 1. The Youth Jason 2. King Pelias 3. The Golden Fleece 4. The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ship 5. The Argo     -- The Beginning of Things 6. Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss 7. King Phineus 8. King Phineus’s Counsel; the Landing in Lemnos 9. The Lemnian Maidens     -- Demeter and Persephone     -- Atalanta’s Race 10. The Departure from Lemnos     -- The Golden Maid 11. The Passage of the Symplegades 12. The Mountain Caucasus     -- Prometheus PART II. THE RETURN TO GREECE. 1. King Æetes 2. Medea the Sorceress 3. The Winning of the Golden Fleece 4. The Slaying of Apsyrtus 5. Medea Comes to Circe 6. In the Land of the Phæacians 7. They Come to the Desert Land 8. The Carrying of the Argo     -- The Story of Perseus 9. Near to lolcus Again PART III. THE HEROES OF THE QUEST. 1. Atalanta the Huntress 2. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea 3. Theseus and the Minotaur 4. The Life and Labors of Heracles     -- The Battle of the Frogs and Mice 5. Admetus 6. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead 7. Jason and Medea

ILLUSTRATIONS Jason and Medea The Argo Hylas Persephone and Aidoneus Atalanta’s Last Race Prometheus The Field of the Dragon’s Teeth Perseus and Andromeda