Identifier: goldenfleeceherocolu (find matches)
Title: The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 Pogány, Willy, 1882-1955, ill
Subjects: Argonauts (Greek mythology)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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d in Seriphus there still reigned Poly-dectes,who had put upon him the terrible task of winning theGorgons head. He came to Seriphus and he left Andromeda in the hut ofDictys the shepherd. No one knew him; he heard his namespoken of as that of a youth who had gone on a foolish questand who would never again be heard of. To the temple wherehis mother was a priestess he came. Guards were placed allaround it. He heard his mothers voice and it was raised inlament: Walled up here and given over to hunger I shall bemade go to Polydectess house and become his wife. 0 yegods, have ye no pity for Danae, the mother of Perseus? Perseus cried aloud, and his mother heard his voice and hermoans ceased. He turned around and he went to the palaceof Polydectes, the king. The king received him with mockeries. I will let you stayin Seriphus for a day, he said, because I would have you ata marriage feast. I have vowed that Danae, taken from thetemple where she sulks, will be my wife by to-morrows sunset.
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THE RETURN TO GREECE 173 So Polydectes said, and the lords and princes who were aroundhim mocked at Perseus and flattered the king. Perseus wentfrom them then. The next day he came back to the palace.But in his hands now there was a dread thing — the bag madefrom the hide of the sea monster that had in it the Gorgonshead. He saw his mother. She was brought in white and fainting,thinking that she would now have to wed the harsh and over-bearing king. Then she saw her son, and hope came into herface. The king seeing Perseus, said: Step forward, 0 youngling,and see your mother wed to a mighty man. Step forward towitness a marriage, and then depart, for it is not right that ayouth that makes promises and does not keep them should stayin a land that I rule over. Step forward now, you with theempty hands. But not with empty hands did Perseus step forward. Heshouted out: I have brought something to you at last, 0 king— a present to you and your mocking friends. But you, 0 mymother, and y

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