. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. st. And the heart of Peleus was uplifted to thinkthat Thetis had harkened to his prayer and had prevailed uponPsamathe to forego her enmity. Not altogether unforgivingwas his wife to him. That day he went from the land of the bright valleys, fromthe land ruled over by the kindly Ceyx, and he came back torugged Phthia, his own country. When he came near his hallhe saw two at the doorway awaiting him. Thetis stood there,and the child Achilles was by her side. The radiance of theimmortals was in her face no longer, but there was a glow
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. st. And the heart of Peleus was uplifted to thinkthat Thetis had harkened to his prayer and had prevailed uponPsamathe to forego her enmity. Not altogether unforgivingwas his wife to him. That day he went from the land of the bright valleys, fromthe land ruled over by the kindly Ceyx, and he came back torugged Phthia, his own country. When he came near his hallhe saw two at the doorway awaiting him. Thetis stood there,and the child Achilles was by her side. The radiance of theimmortals was in her face no longer, but there was a glow there,a glow of welcome for the hero Peleus. And thus Peleus, longtormented by the enmity of the sea-born ones, came back tothe wife he had won from the sea. in. THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR HEREAFTER Theseus made up hismind to go in search of his father, theunknown king, and Medea, the wisewoman, counseled him to go to the hunt in Calydon he setforth. On his way he fought with andslew two robbers who harassed countriesand treated people 202 THE GOLDEN FLEECE The first was Sinnias. He was a robber who slew men cruellyby tying them to strong branches of trees and letting the branchesfly apart. On him Theseus had no mercy. The second was arobber also, Procrustes: he had a great iron bed on which hemade his captives he; if they were too long for that bed hechopped pieces off them, and if they were too short he stretchedout their bodies with terrible racks. On him, likewise, Theseushad no mercy; he slew Procrustes and gave liberty to his captives. The King of Athens at the time was named ^Egeus. He wasfather of Theseus, but neither Theseus nor he knew that thiswas so. iEthra was his mother, and she was the daughter ofthe King of Trcezen. Before Theseus was born his father lefta great sword under a stone, telling JEthm that the boy wasto have the sword when he was able to move that stone away. King ^Egeus was old and fearful now: there were wars andtroubles in t
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