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An edition of Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, The (1921)

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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.

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The Macmillan Company
Language
English
Pages
396

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Classic Literature, Fiction, Argonauts (Greek mythology), Juvenile literature, Greek Mythology, Classical Mythology, Jason (Greek mythology), Newbery Honor, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Children's fiction, Mythology, greek, juvenile literature, Mythology, Fiction, fantasy, general, Greece, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical, general, Argonauts; newbery honor, Mythology, classical, juvenile literature, Mythology, classical

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Table of Contents

Part I. The Voyage to Colchis.
1. The Youth Jason
Page 3
2. King Pelias
Page 11
3. The Golden Fleece
Page 13
4. The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ship
Page 18
5. The Argo
Page 24
The Beginning of Things
Page 33
6. Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss
Page 38
7. King Phineus
Page 45
8. King Phineus’s Counsel; The Landing in Lemnos
Page 52
9. The Lemnian Maidens
Page 58
Demeter and Persephone
Page 61
Atalanta’s Race
Page 73
10. The Departure from Lemnos
Page 81
The Golden Maid
Page 83
11. The Passage of the Symplegades
Page 94
12. The Mountain Caucasus
Page 97
Prometheus
Page 99
Part II. The Return to Greece.
1. King Æetes
Page 109
2. Medea the Sorceress
Page 118
3. The Winning of the Golden Fleece
Page 127
4. The Slaying of Apsyrtus
Page 134
5. Medea Comes to Circe
Page 139
6. In the Land of the Phæacians
Page 142
7. They Come to the Desert Land
Page 148
8. The Carrying of the Argo
Page 152
The Story of Perseus
Page 156
9. Near to Iolcus Again
Page 176
Part III. The Heroes of the Quest.
1. Atalanta the Huntress
Page 183
2. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea
Page 192
3. Theseus and the Minotaur
Page 201
4. The Life and Labors of Heracles
Page 223
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
Page 247
5. Admetus
Page 258
6. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead
Page 268
7. Jason and Medea
Page 273
ILLUSTRATIONS
COLOR PLATES
Jason and Medea
Page Frontispiece
Page FACING PAGE
The Argo
Page 24
Hylas
Page 42
Persephone and Aidoneus
Page 64
Atalanta’s Last Race
Page 80
Prometheus
Page 102
The Field of the Dragon’s Teeth
Page 128
Perseus and Andromeda
Page 168

Edition Notes

Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1921.

Printed in the United States of America
Maps on lining papers.

Also online at http://archive.org/stream/goldenfleeceherocolu
(Imperfect google scan: http://archive.org/stream/goldenfleeceand00colugoog )

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1921

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ8.1.C723 Go, PZ 8 .1 .C72G6, PZ 8 .1 .C728, PZ8.1.C72 G6

Contributors

Illustrator
Willy Pogany
Copyright
The Macmillan Company
Dedicated to
the Children of Susan and Llewellyn Jones
From the Library of
Gift of Cony Sturgis Jr. 30 VII '48
Owner
Cony Sturgis Jr. Dec. 25. 1921.
Printer
Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
ix, [1], 289 p., [45] leaves of plates : col. front., illus., plates (7 col.) ; 19 cm.
Number of pages
396

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL15011352M
Internet Archive
cu31924026416937
LCCN
21021308
Hathi Trust
001021637
Harvard University Library
001405300
Project Gutenberg
37881, 2395
Cornell University ecommons
6757488, 1738184
Canadian National Library Archive
30856359, 27770391, 1172335

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2635291W

Source records

Library of Congress MARC record

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A MAN in the garb of a slave went up the side of that mountain that is all covered with forest, the Mountain Pelion.
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A MAN in the garb of a slave went up the side of that mountain that is all covered with forest, the Mountain Pelion.
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