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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes
Who Lived Before Achilles
By Padraic Colum. 1921

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 Aetes
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