The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

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  • Genre Fiction for Young Adults
  • Publisher Courier Dover Publications
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  • Size 184.52 kB
  • Length 257 Pages

Description

This books is the strange and wondrous adventure of Jason and his Argonauts - through uncharted waters where clashing rocks dash the sea, to shores where harpies with wings of birds and heads of women torment poor mortals. Listen to the songs of the Argonaut Orpheus, songs of the creation of Heaven and Earth, Zeus's battle with the Titans, Pandora and her jar of troubles, Persephone in the Underworld, and the great labors of Hercules. Describes the cycle of myths about the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece, as well as the tales of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, Theseus and the Minotaur, etc.

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