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Title: The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 Pogány, Willy, 1882-1955, ill
Subjects: Argonauts (Greek mythology)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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. She toldthose she went amongst that the son of i^son was alive andwould soon be in their midst. Hearing this the men of thecity formed a council of elders to rule the people until Jasonscoming. In such way Medea brought about the end of KingPeliass reign. In triumph she went through the city. But as she was pass-ing the temple her dress was caught and held, and turningaround she faced the ancient priestess of Artemis, Iphias. Thouart ^Eetess daughter, Iphias said, who in deceit didst comeinto Iolcus. Woe to thee and woe to Jason for what thou hastdone this day! Not for the slaying of Pelias art thou blame-worthy, but for the misery that thou hast brought upon hisdaughters by bringing them into the guilt of the slaying. Gofrom the city, daughter of King ^Eetes; never, never wilt thoucome back into it. But little heed did Medea pay to the ancient priestess, Iphias.Still in the guise of an old woman she went through the streetsof the city, and out through the gate and along the highway
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THE HEROES OF THE QUEST 285 that led from Iolcus. To that dark pool she came where shehad bathed herself before. But now she did not step into thepool nor pour its water over her shrinking flesh; instead shebuilt up two altars of green sods — an altar to Youth and analtar to Hecate, queen of the witches; she wreathed them withgreen boughs from the forest, and she prayed before each. Thenshe made herself naked, and she anointed herself with the brewshe had made from the magical herbs and grasses. All marksof age and decrepitude left her, and when she stood over the darkpool and looked down on herself she saw that her body was whiteand shapely as before, and that her hair was soft and lovely. She stayed all night between the tangled wood and the darkpool, and with the first light the car drawn by the scaly dragonscame to her. She mounted the car, and she journeyed back toCorinth. Into Jasons mind a fear of Medea had come since the hourwhen he had seen her mount the car drawn by the sc

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