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The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Chapter 40: Transcriber’s Note
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About This Book

A collection of retold Greek myths centered on Jason’s upbringing, the gathering of the Argonauts, and their voyage to Colchis to seize the golden fleece, including Medea’s magic and the fraught journey home. Interwoven with that central quest are standalone narratives of other heroes—Atalanta, Perseus, Theseus, Heracles, Orpheus, and Admetus—each given origin scenes, defining adventures, and encounters with gods, monsters, or fate. The material is arranged into voyage, return, and hero-focused sections that mix adventure, mythic wonder, and ethical dilemmas, accompanied by period illustrations that emphasize the stories’ dramatic and fantastic elements.


Transcriber’s Note

 The book received a Newbery Honor Award (1922).

 Illustrations in the original appear on separate, unnumbered pages. In this transcription, wherever an illustration would break a paragraph, it was moved after the paragraph.

 Obvious typographical errors were silently corrected.