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
EAN 4064066099909
Table of Contents
IV. The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ship
VI. Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss
VIII. King Phineus’s Counsel; The Landing in Lemnos
XI. The Passage of the Symplegades
III. The Winning of the Golden Fleece
VI. In the Land of the Phæacians
VII. They Come to the Desert Land
VIII. The Carrying of the Argo
Part III. The Heroes of the Quest
II. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea
IV. The Life and Labors of Heracles
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
VI. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead
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Part I. The Voyage to Colchis
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I. The Youth Jason
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.
[pg 4]
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