The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, credited to Padraic Colum, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum. 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: File #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.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
• Author credits: Padraic Colum
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 7:33:22

Catalogue topics

• audio
• colum
• greece
• mythology
• jason
• medea
• golden fleece

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Part 1 Ch. 1: The Youth Jason — 12:50
2. 02 - Part 1 Ch. 2: King Pelias — 3:10
3. 03 - Part 1 Ch. 3: The Golden Fleece — 8:21
4. 04 - Part 1 Ch. 4: The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ships — 10:43
5. 05 - Part 1 Ch. 5: The Argo — 22:26
6. 06 - Part 1 Ch. 6: Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss — 10:50
7. 07 - Part 1 Ch. 7: King Phineus — 9:57
8. 08 - Part 1 Ch. 8: King Phineus’s Counsel/The Landing in Lemnos — 8:46
9. 09 - Part 1 Ch. 9: The Lemnian Maidens — 39:41
10. 10 - Part 1 Ch. 10: The Departure from Lemnos — 22:32
11. 11 - Part 1 Ch. 11: The Passage of the Symplegades — 5:26
12. 12 - Part 1 Ch. 12: The Mountain Caucasus — 15:27
13. 13 - Part 2, Ch. 1 - King Aetes — 12:52
14. 14 - Part 2 Ch. 2: Medea the Sorceress — 14:40
15. 15 - Part 2 Ch. 3: The Winning of the Golden Fleece — 10:56
16. 16 - Part 2 Ch. 4: The Slaying of Apsyrtus — 7:20
17. 17 - Part 2 Ch. 5: Medea Comes to Circe — 5:15
18. 18 - Part 2 Ch. 6: In the Land of the Phaeacians — 9:43
19. 19 - Part 2 Ch. 7: They Come to the Desert Land — 6:48
20. 20 - Part 2 Ch. 8: The Carrying Out of the Argo — 33:40
21. 21 - Part 2 Ch. 9: Near to Iolcus Again — 7:25
22. 22 - Part 3 Ch. 1: Atalanta the Huntress — 13:24
23. 23 - Part 3 Ch. 2: Peleus and his Bride from the Sea — 20:40
24. 24 - Part 3 Ch. 3: Theseus and the Minotaur — 33:15

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