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Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Public domain audiobook

Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

by Pádraic Colum

English· 7:33:22· 29 chapters
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.
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Part 1 Ch. 1: The Youth Jason

    12:50
  2. Chapter 2

    Part 1 Ch. 2: King Pelias

    03:10
  3. Chapter 3

    Part 1 Ch. 3: The Golden Fleece

    08:21
  4. Chapter 4

    Part 1 Ch. 4: The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ships

    10:43
  5. Chapter 5

    Part 1 Ch. 5: The Argo

    22:26
  6. Chapter 6

    Part 1 Ch. 6: Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss

    10:50
  7. Chapter 7

    Part 1 Ch. 7: King Phineus

    09:57
  8. Chapter 8

    Part 1 Ch. 8: King Phineus’s Counsel/The Landing in Lemnos

    08:46
  9. Chapter 9

    Part 1 Ch. 9: The Lemnian Maidens

    39:40
  10. Chapter 10

    Part 1 Ch. 10: The Departure From Lemnos

    22:31
  11. Chapter 11

    Part 1 Ch. 11: The Passage of the Symplegades

    05:26
  12. Chapter 12

    Part 1 Ch. 12: The Mountain Caucasus

    15:27
  13. Chapter 13

    Part 2 Ch. 1: King Aetes

    12:52
  14. Chapter 14

    Part 2 Ch. 2: Medea the Sorceress

    14:40
  15. Chapter 15

    Part 2 Ch. 3: The Winning of the Golden Fleece

    10:56
  16. Chapter 16

    Part 2 Ch. 4: The Slaying of Apsyrtus

    07:20
  17. Chapter 17

    Part 2 Ch. 5: Medea Comes to Circe

    05:15
  18. Chapter 18

    Part 2 Ch. 6: In the Land of the Phaeacians

    09:43
  19. Chapter 19

    Part 2 Ch. 7: They Come to the Desert Land

    06:48
  20. Chapter 20

    Part 2 Ch. 8: The Carrying Out of the Argo

    33:40
  21. Chapter 21

    Part 2 Ch. 9: Near to Iolcus Again

    07:25
  22. Chapter 22

    Part 3 Ch. 1: Atalanta the Huntress

    13:24
  23. Chapter 23

    Part 3 Ch. 2: Peleus and his Bride from the Sea

    20:40
  24. Chapter 24

    Part 3 Ch. 3: Theseus and the Minotaur

    33:14
  25. Chapter 25

    Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 1: The Life and Labors of Heracles

    43:29
  26. Chapter 26

    Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 2: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice

    17:22
  27. Chapter 27

    Part 3 Ch. 5: Admetus

    14:18
  28. Chapter 28

    Part 3 Ch. 6: How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead

    07:50
  29. Chapter 29

    Part 3 Ch. 7: Jason and Medea

    24:19