The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Name: The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Padriac Colum
ISBN: 9780786133420

Author: Padriac Colum

Narrator: Fred Williams

Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

This is the story of Jason, the Argonauts, and their quest for the golden fleece. Along with Heracles and Theseus, Perseus and Atalanta, and the sorceress Medea, Jason travels on a wondrous journey in the ship Argo to strange lands populated by even stranger inhabitants. While they travel, Orpheus, the famous Greek storyteller, sings songs about the gods and goddesses and the creation of heaven and earth.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail

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......more

Goodreads review by Francesca

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.......more