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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
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English
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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
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.
Reissued October, 1934.

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

Copyright Date
1921

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ8.1.C723 Go, BL820 .A8C6, PZ 8 .1 .C72G6, PZ 8 .1 .C728

Contributors

Illustrator
Willy Pogany
Copyright
The Macmillan Company
Dedicated to
the Children of Susan and Llewellyn Jones
Printer
J. J. Little and Ives Company, New York

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
ix, [1], 289 p., [45] leaves of plates : front., ill., plates ; 19 cm.
Number of pages
396

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6639470M
Internet Archive
goldenfleeceandh00colurich
Canadian National Library Archive
29602573

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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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