. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. ordof the voyage, he would bring the Golden Fleece to Iolcus andmake famous for all time his own name. IV. THE ASSEMBLING OF THE HEROES ANDTHE BUILDING OF THE SHIP ^IRST there came the youths Castor andPolydeuces. They came riding on whitehorses, two noble-looking brothers. FromSparta they came, and their mother wasLeda, who, after the twin brothers, hadanother child born to her — Helen, forwhose sake the sons of many of Jasonsfriends were to wage war against the great city of Troy. Thesewere the first heroes who came to Iolcus afte
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. ordof the voyage, he would bring the Golden Fleece to Iolcus andmake famous for all time his own name. IV. THE ASSEMBLING OF THE HEROES ANDTHE BUILDING OF THE SHIP ^IRST there came the youths Castor andPolydeuces. They came riding on whitehorses, two noble-looking brothers. FromSparta they came, and their mother wasLeda, who, after the twin brothers, hadanother child born to her — Helen, forwhose sake the sons of many of Jasonsfriends were to wage war against the great city of Troy. Thesewere the first heroes who came to Iolcus after the word had goneforth through Greece of Jasons adventuring in quest of theGolden Fleece. And then there came one who had both welcome and reverencefrom Jason; this one came without spear or bow, bearing in hishands a lyre only. He was Orpheus, and he knew all the waysof the gods and all the stories of the gods; when he sang to hislyre the trees would listen and the beasts would follow him. Itwas Chiron who had counseled Orpheus to go with Jason; Chiron. THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS 19 the centaur had met him as he was wandering through the forestson the Mountain Pelion and had sent him down into Iolcus. Then there came two men well skilled in the handling of ships— Tiphys and Nauplius. Tiphys knew all about the sun andwinds and stars, and all about the signs by which a ship mightbe steered, and Nauplius had the love of Poseidon, the god of thesea. Afterward there came, one after the other, two who werefamous for their hunting. No two could be more different thanthese two were. The first was Arc as. He was dressed in theskin of a bear; he had red hair and savage-looking eyes, and forarms he carried a mighty bow with bronze-tipped arrows. Thefolk were watching an eagle as he came into the city — an eaglethat was winging its way far, far up in the sky. Areas drew hisbow, and with one arrow he brought the eagle down. The other hunter was a girl, Atalanta. Tall and bright-haired w
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