Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Pádraic Colum
Play
Length 7 h 33 min
Chapters 29
First published 1921
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.
Chapters
1
Part 1 Ch. 1: The Youth Jason Read by Elizabeth Klett 12:50
2
Part 1 Ch. 2: King Pelias Read by Elizabeth Klett 3:10
3
Part 1 Ch. 3: The Golden Fleece Read by Elizabeth Klett 8:21
4
Part 1 Ch. 4: The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ships Read by Viridian 10:43
5
Part 1 Ch. 5: The Argo Read by Elizabeth Klett 22:26
6
Part 1 Ch. 6: Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss Read by Elizabeth Klett 10:50
7
Part 1 Ch. 7: King Phineus Read by Elizabeth Klett 9:57
8
Part 1 Ch. 8: King Phineus’s Counsel/The Landing in Lemnos Read by Elizabeth Klett 8:46
9
Part 1 Ch. 9: The Lemnian Maidens Read by Lanerd 39:40
10
Part 1 Ch. 10: The Departure From Lemnos Read by Lanerd 22:31
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Part 1 Ch. 11: The Passage of the Symplegades Read by Elizabeth Klett 5:26
12
Part 1 Ch. 12: The Mountain Caucasus Read by Elizabeth Klett 15:27
13
Part 2 Ch. 1: King Aetes Read by Moromis 12:52
14
Part 2 Ch. 2: Medea the Sorceress Read by Magdalen Irving 14:40
15
Part 2 Ch. 3: The Winning of the Golden Fleece Read by Emily Feuka 10:56
16
Part 2 Ch. 4: The Slaying of Apsyrtus Read by Elizabeth Klett 7:20
17
Part 2 Ch. 5: Medea Comes to Circe Read by Eden Rea-Hedrick 5:15
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Part 2 Ch. 6: In the Land of the Phaeacians Read by Elizabeth Klett 9:43
19
Part 2 Ch. 7: They Come to the Desert Land Read by Elizabeth Klett 6:48
20
Part 2 Ch. 8: The Carrying Out of the Argo Read by Elizabeth Klett 33:40
21
Part 2 Ch. 9: Near to Iolcus Again Read by Elizabeth Klett 7:25
22
Part 3 Ch. 1: Atalanta the Huntress Read by Elizabeth Klett 13:24
23
Part 3 Ch. 2: Peleus and his Bride from the Sea Read by Jen Cabral 20:40
24
Part 3 Ch. 3: Theseus and the Minotaur Read by Emily Feuka 33:14
25
Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 1: The Life and Labors of Heracles Read by Lanerd and 1 other 43:29
26
Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 2: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice Read by laineyben 17:22
27
Part 3 Ch. 5: Admetus Read by Moromis 14:18
28
Part 3 Ch. 6: How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead Read by Eden Rea-Hedrick 7:50
29
Part 3 Ch. 7: Jason and Medea Read by Elizabeth Klett 24:19
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