Geared toward young readers, these classic retellings of stories from ancient myth center on the Argonauts' quest for the golden fleece. Stories of the heroic Jason, Atalanta the huntress, Perseus and his bride from the sea, Theseus and the Minotaur, and other fantastic characters are complemented by 40 evocative illustrations.
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This review is from: The Story of the Golden Fleece (Dover Children's Classics) (Paperback)
After seeing the campy movie "Jason and the Argonauts," my 7-year old son and I settled down into serious reading of the tale of quest for the Golden Fleece. Padraic Colum was a masterful storyteller--the Irish have that gift--and his language made the myths come alive with a power that kept my son riveted even when he wasn't quite sure what some of the words meant. It wasn't bad explaining to my son, for example, that provender is an old word for food.
There is an epic sense to the stories here--full of heroes giving speeches and saying noble things when they aren't fighting or engaged in heroic tasks. One of the learning points about the tale of the Argonauts' quest is that their story touches on other myths: that of the labors of Herakles (Hercules), of Orpheus in the Underworld, of Prometheus, of Theseus and the Minotaur, even of the future siege of Troy. So there ends up being a lot to talk about. There are 30 or so illustrations throughout this 246-page text, which seems about right for kids at an age where they are willing to be read to from serious books without a picture on every page and can imagine the action themselves. These Dover reprints of old classic editions are a bargain. Christian parents--the Greek myths are excellent for contrasting the pagan gods with the God Whom we worship and serve, the pagan Greek idea of Death with the Christian knowledge of death, and so forth. After an evening's reading of a chapter, I'd tell my son, "Let's now pray to the True God," and he did so with greater enthusiasm than before. Strongly recommended.
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