. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. by the rays of thesun. He shouted out against the sun, and in his anger hewanted to strive against the sun. Then he drew his bow andshot arrows upward. Far, far out of sight the arrows of Her-acles went. And the sun god, Helios, was filled with admira-tion for Heracles, the man who would attempt the impossibleby shooting arrows at him; then did Helios fling down to Her-acles his great golden cup. Down, and into the Stream of Ocean fell the great goldencup of Helios. It floated there wide enough to hold all themen who might be in a s
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. by the rays of thesun. He shouted out against the sun, and in his anger hewanted to strive against the sun. Then he drew his bow andshot arrows upward. Far, far out of sight the arrows of Her-acles went. And the sun god, Helios, was filled with admira-tion for Heracles, the man who would attempt the impossibleby shooting arrows at him; then did Helios fling down to Her-acles his great golden cup. Down, and into the Stream of Ocean fell the great goldencup of Helios. It floated there wide enough to hold all themen who might be in a ship. Heracles put the bull of Minosinto the cup of Helios, and the cup bore them away, towardthe west, and across the Stream of Ocean. Thus Heracles came to the Island of Erytheia. All over theisland straggled the red cattle of Geryoneus, grazing upon therich pastures. Heracles, leaving the bull of Minos in the cup,went upon the island; he made a club for himself out of a treeand he went toward the cattle. The hound Orthus bayed and ran toward him; the two-. THE HEROES OF THE QUEST 237 headed hound that was the brother of Cerberus sprang at Her-acles with poisonous foam upon his jaws. Heracles swung hisclub and struck the two heads off the hound. And where thefoam of the hounds jaws dropped down a poisonous plantsprang up. Heracles took up the body of the hound, andswung it around and flung it far out into the Ocean. Then the monster Geryoneus came upon him. Three bodieshe had instead of one; he attacked Heracles by hurling greatstones at him. Heracles was hurt by the stones. And then themonster beheld the cup of Helios, and he began to hurl stonesat the golden thing, and it seemed that he might sink it in thesea, and leave Heracles without a way of getting from the took up his bow and he shot arrow after arrow at themonster, and he left him dead in the deep grass of the pastures. Then he rounded up the red cattle, the bulls and the cows,and he drove them down t
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