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Original Copyright 1921 by Padraic Colum. 2 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 MEDEA THE SORCERESS .............................................. 53 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE WINNING OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE ..................... 57 THE YOUTH JASON ........................................................ 4 THE SLAYING OF APSYRTUS ........................................ 60 KING PELIAS .................................................................. 8 MEDEA COMES TO CIRCE ............................................ 62 THE GOLDEN FLEECE .................................................... 9 IN THE LAND OF THE PHAEACIANS .............................. 63 THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP ........................................ 11 THEY COME TO THE DESERT LAND ............................. 66 THE ARGO .................................................................... 13 THE CARRYING OF THE ARGO ...................................... 68 THE BEGINNING OF THINGS ........................................ 17 THE STORY OF PERSEUS .............................................. 69 POLYDEUCES' VICTORY AND HERACLES' LOSS .......... 20 NEAR TO IOLCUS AGAIN .............................................. 77 KING PHINEUS .............................................................. 23 ATALANTA THE HUNTRESS .......................................... 79 KING PHINEUS'S COUNSEL—LANDING IN LEMNOS ... 26 PELEUS AND HIS BRIDE FROM THE SEA ...................... 83 THE LEMNIAN MAIDENS .............................................. 28 THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR ..................................... 86 DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE ....................................... 30 THE LIFE AND LABORS OF HERACLES......................... 95 ATALANTA’S RACE ...................................................... 35 THE BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE .................... 104 THE DEPARTURE FROM LEMNOS ................................ 39 ADMETUS .................................................................... 109 THE GOLDEN MAID ..................................................... 39 HOW ORPHEUS WENT TO WORLD OF THE DEAD ..... 113 THE PASSAGE OF THE SYMPLEGADES ......................... 44 JASON AND MEDEA ..................................................... 115 THE MOUNTAIN CAUCASUS ......................................... 46 PROMETHEUS ............................................................... 46 ING EETES K A ............................................................... 50 Original Copyright 1921 by Padraic Colum. 3 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 CHAPTER I "For Aeson's sake I will rear and foster this child," said Chiron the king-centaur in a deep voice. THE YOUTH JASON 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. When it was full noon the slave came into a clearing of the forest so silent that it seemed empty of all life. He laid the child down on the soft moss, and then, trembling with the fear of what might come before him, he raised a horn to his lips and blew three blasts upon it. Then he waited. The blue sky was above him, the great trees stood away from him, and the little child lay at his feet. He waited, and then he heard the thud-thud of great hooves. And then from between the trees he saw coming toward him the strangest of all beings, one who was half man and half horse; this was Chiron the centaur. Chiron came toward the trembling slave. Greater than any horse was Chiron, taller than any man. The hair of his head flowed back into his horse's mane, his great beard flowed over his horse's chest; in his man's hand he held a great spear. Not swiftly he came, but the slave could see that in those great limbs of his there was speed like to the wind's. The slave fell upon his knees. And with eyes that were full of majesty and wisdom and limbs that were full of strength and The child lying on the moss had been looking up at the speed, the king-centaur stood above him. "O my lord," the four-footed and two-handed centaur. Now the slave lifted him slave said, "I have come before thee sent by Aeson, my up and placed him in the centaur's arms. He said: master, who told me where to come and what blasts to blow "Aeson bade me tell thee that the child's name is Jason. upon the horn. And Aeson, once King of Iolcus, bade me say He bade me give thee this ring with the great ruby in it that to thee that if thou dost remember his ancient friendship with thou mayst give it to the child when he is grown. By this ring thee thou wilt, perchance, take this child and guard and foster with its ruby and the images engraved on it Aeson may know him, and, as he grows, instruct him with thy wisdom." his son when they meet after many years and many changes. And another thing Aeson bade me say to thee, O my lord Chiron: not presumptuous is he, but he knows that this child Original Copyright 1921 by Padraic Colum. 4 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 has the regard of the immortal Goddess Hera, the wife of Aeson would have lived content there were it not that Zeus." he was fearful for Jason, his infant son. Jason, he knew, would Chiron held Aeson's son in his arms, and the little child grow into a strong and a bold youth, and Pelias, the king, put hands into his great beard. Then the centaur said, "Let would be made uneasy on his account. Pelias would slay the Aeson know that his son will be reared and fostered by me, son, and perhaps would slay the father for the son's sake when and that, when they meet again, there will be ways by which his memory would come to be less loved by the people. Aeson they will be known to each other." thought of such things in his hidden house, and he pondered on ways to have his son reared away from Iolcus and the dread Saying this Chiron the centaur, holding the child in his and the power of King Pelias. arms, went swiftly toward the forest arches; then the slave took up the horn and went down the side of the Mountain He had for a friend one who was the wisest of all Pelion. He came to where a horse was hidden, and he mounted creatures—Chiron the centaur; Chiron who was half man and and rode, first to a city, and then to a village that was beyond half horse; Chiron who had lived and was yet to live the city. measureless years. Chiron had fostered Heracles, and it might be that he would not refuse to foster Jason, Aeson's child. All this was before the famous walls of Troy were built; before King Priam had come to the throne of his father Away in the fastnesses of Mount Pelion Chiron dwelt; and while he was still known, not as Priam, but as Podarces. once Aeson had been with him and had seen the centaur hunt And the beginning of all these happenings was in Iolcus, a city with his great bow and his great spears. And Aeson knew a in Thessaly. way that one might come to him; Chiron himself had told him of the way. Cretheus founded the city and had ruled over it in days before King Priam was born. He left two sons, Aeson and Now there was a slave in his house who had been a Pelias. Aeson succeeded his father. And because he was a mild huntsman and who knew all the ways of the Mountain Pelion. and gentle man, the men of war did not love Aeson; they Aeson talked with this slave one day, and after he had talked wanted a hard king who would lead them to conquests. with him he sat for a long time over the cradle of his sleeping infant. And then he spoke to Alcimide, his wife, telling her of Pelias, the brother of Aeson, was ever with the men of a parting that made her weep. That evening the slave came in war; he knew what mind they had toward Aeson and he and Aeson took the child from the arms of the mournful-eyed plotted with them to overthrow his brother. This they did, and mother and put him in the slave's arms. Also he gave him a they brought Pelias to reign as king in Iolcus. horn and a ring with a great ruby in it and mystic images The people loved Aeson and they feared Pelias. And engraved on its gold.
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