The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whom he had seen in the ways of the forest ? Hera, great Zeus's wife. ""Go into Iolcus, Jason,"" said great Hera to him, ""go into lolcus, and in whatever chance doth befall thee act as one who has the eyes of the immortals upon him."" She spoke and she was seen no more. Then Jason went on his way to the city that Cretheus, his grandfather, had founded and that his father Eson had once ruled over. He came into that city, a tall, great-limbed, unknown youth, dressed in a strange fashion, and having but one sandal on. II. KING PELIAS kHAT day King Pelias, walking through the streets of his city, saw coming toward him a youth who was half shod. He remembered the words of the oracle that bade him beware of a half-shod man, and straightway he gave orders to his guards to lay hands upon the youth. But the guards wavered when they went toward him, for there was something about the youth that put them in awe of him. He came with the guards, however, and he stood before the king's judgment seat. Fearfully did Pelias look upon him. But not fearfully did the youth look upon the king. With head lifted high he cried out,""Thou art Pelias, but I do not salute thee as king. Know that I am Jason, the son of Eson from whom thou hast taken the throne and scepter that were rightfully his."" King Pelias looked to his guards. He would have given them a sign to destroy the youth's life with their spears, but behind his guards he saw a threatening multitude ? the dwellers of the city of Iolcus; they gathered around, and Pelias knew that he had become more and more hated by them. And from the multitude a cry went up, ""Eson, Eson May Eson come back to us Jason, son of JEson I May nothing evil befall thee, brave youth "" Then Pelias knew that the youth might not be slain. He bent his head w... | The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters