. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. oes might not go there. It was to Corinth that the Argo went. Creon, the king ofCorinth, welcomed them and gave great honor to the heroeswho had faced such labors and such dangers to bring the worldswonder to Greece. The Argonauts stayed together until they went to Calydon,to hunt the boar that ravaged Prince Meleagruss that they separated, each one going to his own came back to Corinth where Medea stayed. And in Cor-inth he had tidings of the happenings in Iolcus. King Pelias now ruled more fearfully in Iol
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. oes might not go there. It was to Corinth that the Argo went. Creon, the king ofCorinth, welcomed them and gave great honor to the heroeswho had faced such labors and such dangers to bring the worldswonder to Greece. The Argonauts stayed together until they went to Calydon,to hunt the boar that ravaged Prince Meleagruss that they separated, each one going to his own came back to Corinth where Medea stayed. And in Cor-inth he had tidings of the happenings in Iolcus. King Pelias now ruled more fearfully in Iolcus, having broughtdown from the mountains more and fiercer soldiers. And^Eson, Jasons father, and Alcimide, his mother, were nowdead, having been slain by King Pelias. This Jason heard from men who came into Corinth fromThessaly. And because of the great army that Pelias hadgathered there, Jason might not yet go into Iolcus, either toexact a vengeance, or to show the people The Golden Fleecethat he had gone so far to gain. PART III. THE HEROES OF THE QUEST. I. ATALANTA THE HUNTRESS HEY came once more together, the heroesof the quest, to hunt a boar in Caly-don — Jason and Peleus came, Telamon,Theseus, and rough Areas, Nestor andHelens brothers Polydeuces and , most noted of all, there came theArcadian huntress maid, they all thought her when they knew her aboardthe Argo. But even more beautiful Atalanta seemed to theheroes when she came amongst them in her hunting gear. Herlovely hair hung in two bands across her shoulders, and overher breast hung an ivory quiver filled with arrows. They saidthat her face with its wide and steady eyes was maidenly fora boys, and boyish for a maidens face. Swiftly she movedwith her head held high, and there was not one amongst theheroes who did not say, Oh, happy would that man be whomAtalanta the unwedded would take for her husband! All the heroes said it, but the one who said it most feelinglywas the prince of C
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