. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. tobe his dominion when he shared amongst the Olympians theworld that Cronos had ruled over. A fearful hound guards thehall of Aidoneus: Cerberus he is called; he has three heads. Onthose who go within that hall Cerberus fawns, but on those whowould come out of it he springs and would devour them. Not all the Titans did Zeus send down to Tartarus. Those ofthem who had wisdom joined him, and by their wisdom Zeus wasable to overcome Cronos. Then Cronos went to live with thefriendly Titan gods, while Zeus reigned over Olympus, becomingt
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. tobe his dominion when he shared amongst the Olympians theworld that Cronos had ruled over. A fearful hound guards thehall of Aidoneus: Cerberus he is called; he has three heads. Onthose who go within that hall Cerberus fawns, but on those whowould come out of it he springs and would devour them. Not all the Titans did Zeus send down to Tartarus. Those ofthem who had wisdom joined him, and by their wisdom Zeus wasable to overcome Cronos. Then Cronos went to live with thefriendly Titan gods, while Zeus reigned over Olympus, becomingthe ruler of gods and men. So Orpheus sang, Orpheus who knew the ways and the historiesof the gods. VI. PCO-DEUCES VICTORY AND HERACLES LOSS LL the places that the Argonauts camenigh to and went past need not be told —Melibcea, where they escaped a stormybeach; Homole, from where they wereable to look on Ossa and holy Olympus;Lemnos, the island that they were toreturn to; the unnamed country wherethe Earth-born Men abide, each having six arms, two growing. THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS 39 from his shoulders, and four fitting close to his terrible sides;and then the Mountain of the Bears, where they climbed, tomake sacrifice there to Rhea, the mighty mother of the gods. Afterward, for a whole day, no wind blew and the sail of theArgo hung slack. But the heroes swore to each other that theywould make their ship go as swiftly as if the storm-footed steedsof Poseidon were racing to overtake her. Mightily they laboredat the oars, and no one would be first to leave his rowersbench. And then, just as the breeze of the evening came up, and justas the rest of the heroes were leaning back, spent with theirlabor, the oar that Heracles still pulled at broke, and half of itwas carried away by the waves. Heracles sat there in ill humor,for he did not know what to do with his unlaboring hands. All through the night they went on with a good breeze fillingtheir sails, and next day they came to the mou
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