num_pages: 256
description: Jason, heir to the kingdom of Iolcus, has been pushed aside by the usurper Pelias. To win the throne, he agrees to voyage across unknown seas to Colchis and carry off the Golden Fleece, which brings men wealth and happiness... "Jason and the Argonauts” is the first surviving account of a voyage by fearless seafarers, and it differs from other stories of its kind in that it comes to us from a time before recorded history. We are fortunate that this is so, for thus we hear it from the mouths of poets and story-tellers who were expert in their art. With their soaring imagination, they have wrought a tale which has held readers down the centuries with the same breathless delight which surely captivated those who first heard it from some minstrel’s lips, almost three thousand years ago.
language: English
title: Jason and the Argonauts
titlecomplete: Jason and the Argonauts (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)
genres: Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Mythology
ratings_count: 160
publisher: Sigma Publications