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The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Padraic Colum

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Book Overview: 

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.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .And there, too, is the home of Night. Night and Day meet each other at that place, as they pass a threshold of bronze. They draw near and they greet one another, but the house never holds them both together, for while one is about to go down into the house, the other is leaving through the door. One holds Light in her hand and the other holds in her arms Sleep.

 There the children of dark Night have their dwellings—Sleep, and Death, his brother. The sun never shines upon these two. Sleep may roam over the wide earth, and come upon the sea, and he is kindly to men. But Death is not kindly, and whoever he seizes upon, him he holds fast.

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Community Reviews

3.00
- Barb - Jul 18, 2023

I have liked newer translations. There is not as much character development in this one.

3.00
- Francesca - Aug 17, 2023

There were enjoyable parts and I was glad to be able to know where some of the myths I know came from and their fuller story.

3.00
- Abigail - Sep 13, 2019

One of five titles to be selected as a Newbery Honor Book in 1922, the year that the award was instituted, Padraic Colum's The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles reads like a children's version of Hesiod's
Theogony
. The tale of Jason and the Argonauts, who set out on a quest

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- Alessandro - Jan 23, 2016

“The Golden Fleece, and the Heroes before Achilles,” follows the story of a young man named Jason who was given a mission by his evil uncle Aetes, to go, and retrieve the legendary Golden Fleece. Along his travels, his crew mates and other individuals told stories about all of the Greek heroes, her

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