Jason and Medea
The Golden Fleece
and the Heroes Who
Lived before Achilles
By Padraig Colum
Illustrations by Willy Pogany
1921
The Macmillan Company, New York
to
the children of
Susan and Llewellyn Jones
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 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
Illustrations
Jason and Medea
the
Argo
Hylas
Persephone and Aidoneus
Atalanta’s Last Race
Prometheus
The Field of the Dragon’s Teeth
Perseus and Andromeda