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0689868847

The Golden Fleece: And the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (Author)

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A stirring telling of the Greek epics; a wonderful introduction to the classic myths for young readers.
Details
  • Resource Type: Book
  • ISBN: 0689868847
  • Print Status: In Print
  • Stories: 28
  • Pages: 320
  • Suggested Grade Level: 4th - 9th
  • Geographical Setting: Greece
  • Historical Setting: 1263BC - 1263BC
  • Subjects: History
  • Publisher: Aladdin
  • Copyright: 2004
  • Written: 1921
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Story Details
  • 1:1 — The Youth Jason
  • 1:2 — King Pelias
  • 1:3 — The Golden Fleece
  • 1:4 — The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ship
  • 1:5 — The Argo
  • 1:6 — Polydeuces' Victory and Heracles' Loss
  • 1:7 — King Phineus
  • 1:8 — King Phineus's Counsel, The Landing in Lemnos
  • 1:9 — The Lemnian Maidens
  • 1:10 — The Departure from Lemnos
  • 1:11 — The Passage of the Symplegades
  • 1:12 — The Mountain Caucasus
  • 2:1 — King Aetes
  • 2:2 — Medea the Sorceress
  • 2:3 — The Winning of the Golden Fleece
  • 2:4 — The Slaying of Apsyrtus
  • 2:5 — Medea Comes to Circe
  • 2:6 — In the Land of the Phaeacians
  • 2:7 — They Come to the Desert Land
  • 2:8 — The Carrying of the Argo
  • 2:9 — Near to Iolcus Again
  • 3:1 — Atalanta the Huntress
  • 3:2 — Peleus and His Bride from the Sea
  • 3:3 — Theseus and the Minotaur
  • 3:4 — The Life and Labors of Heracles
  • 3:5 — Admetus
  • 3:6 — How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead
  • 3:7 — Jason and Medea