The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
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Chapters (39)
- Illustrations
- 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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