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Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, and others. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Note: Section 25 was replaced on June 2, 2020. The original file was missing the second portion of the text. The new file has the section in its entirety with a different reader for the second portion.

Year of Publication: 1921Genres: Short Stories , Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Running Time: 7 hours 33 minutes 22 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Part 1 Ch. 1: The Youth Jason Elizabeth Klett	12:50
2	Part 1 Ch. 2: King Pelias Elizabeth Klett	3:10
3	Part 1 Ch. 3: The Golden Fleece Elizabeth Klett	8:21
4	Part 1 Ch. 4: The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ships Viridian	10:43
5	Part 1 Ch. 5: The Argo Elizabeth Klett	22:26
6	Part 1 Ch. 6: Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss Elizabeth Klett	10:50
7	Part 1 Ch. 7: King Phineus Elizabeth Klett	9:57
8	Part 1 Ch. 8: King Phineus’s Counsel/The Landing in Lemnos Elizabeth Klett	8:46
9	Part 1 Ch. 9: The Lemnian Maidens Lanerd	39:40
10	Part 1 Ch. 10: The Departure From Lemnos Lanerd	22:31
11	Part 1 Ch. 11: The Passage of the Symplegades Elizabeth Klett	5:26
12	Part 1 Ch. 12: The Mountain Caucasus Elizabeth Klett	15:27
13	Part 2 Ch. 1: King Aetes Moromis	12:52
14	Part 2 Ch. 2: Medea the Sorceress Magdalen Irving	14:40
15	Part 2 Ch. 3: The Winning of the Golden Fleece Emily Feuka	10:56
16	Part 2 Ch. 4: The Slaying of Apsyrtus Elizabeth Klett	7:20
17	Part 2 Ch. 5: Medea Comes to Circe Eden Rea-Hedrick	5:15
18	Part 2 Ch. 6: In the Land of the Phaeacians Elizabeth Klett	9:43
19	Part 2 Ch. 7: They Come to the Desert Land Elizabeth Klett	6:48
20	Part 2 Ch. 8: The Carrying Out of the Argo Elizabeth Klett	33:40
21	Part 2 Ch. 9: Near to Iolcus Again Elizabeth Klett	7:25
22	Part 3 Ch. 1: Atalanta the Huntress Elizabeth Klett	13:24
23	Part 3 Ch. 2: Peleus and his Bride from the Sea Jen Cabral	20:40
24	Part 3 Ch. 3: Theseus and the Minotaur Emily Feuka	33:14
25	Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 1: The Life and Labors of Heracles Lanerd	43:29
26	Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 2: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice laineyben	17:22
27	Part 3 Ch. 5: Admetus Moromis	14:18
28	Part 3 Ch. 6: How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead Eden Rea-Hedrick	7:50
29	Part 3 Ch. 7: Jason and Medea Elizabeth Klett	24:19