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Contents - The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

From Padraic Colum

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

by Padraic Colum

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 Beginnings of Things
VI. Polydeuces' Victory And Heracles' Loss
VII. King Phineas
VIII. King Phineus's Counsel; the Landing in Lemnos
IX. The Lemnian Maidens | Demeter and Persephone | Atalanta's Race
X. The Departure from Lemnos
XI. The Golden Maiden (Pandora)
The Passage Of The Symplegades
XII.The Mountain Caucasus and Prometheus

Part II Return to Greece

I. King Aeetes
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 Phaeacians
VII. They Come to the Desert Land
VIII. The Carrying of the Argo
IX. The Story of Perseus

Part III The Heroes

I. Atalanta the Huntress
II. Peleus and His Bride From the Sea
III. Theseus and the Minotaur
IV. The Life and Labors of Heracles
V. Admetus
VI. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead
VII. Jason and Medea

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