The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
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1. Front matter2. Illustrations3. Part I. The Voyage to Colchis4. I. The Youth Jason5. II. King Pelias6. III. The Golden Fleece7. IV. The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ship8. V. The Argo9. VI. Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss10. VII. King Phineus11. VIII. King Phineus’s Counsel; The Landing in Lemnos12. IX. The Lemnian Maidens13. X. The Departure from Lemnos14. XI. The Passage of the Symplegades15. XII. The Mountain Caucasus16. Part II. The Return to Greece17. I. King Æetes18. II. Medea the Sorceress19. III. The Winning of the Golden Fleece20. IV. The Slaying of Apsyrtus21. V. Medea Comes to Circe22. VI. In the Land of the Phæacians23. VII. They Come to the Desert Land24. VIII. The Carrying of the Argo25. IX. Near to Iolcus Again26. Part III. The Heroes of the Quest27. I. Atalanta the Huntress28. II. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea29. III. Theseus and the Minotaur30. IV. The Life and Labors of Heracles31. V. Admetus32. VI. How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead33. VII. Jason and Medea34. Transcriber’s Note