This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, and others.

Latest episodes of the podcast The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

• 01 - Part 1 Ch. 1: The Youth Jason
• 02 - Part 1 Ch. 2: King Pelias
• 03 - Part 1 Ch. 3: The Golden Fleece
• 04 - Part 1 Ch. 4: The Assembling of the Heroes and the Building of the Ships
• 05 - Part 1 Ch. 5: The Argo
• 06 - Part 1 Ch. 6: Polydeuces’ Victory and Heracles’ Loss
• 07 - Part 1 Ch. 7: King Phineus
• 08 - Part 1 Ch. 8: King Phineus’s Counsel/The Landing in Lemnos
• 09 - Part 1 Ch. 9: The Lemnian Maidens
• 10 - Part 1 Ch. 10: The Departure from Lemnos
• 11 - Part 1 Ch. 11: The Passage of the Symplegades
• 12 - Part 1 Ch. 12: The Mountain Caucasus
• 13 - Part 2, Ch. 1 - King Aetes
• 14 - Part 2 Ch. 2: Medea the Sorceress
• 15 - Part 2 Ch. 3: The Winning of the Golden Fleece
• 16 - Part 2 Ch. 4: The Slaying of Apsyrtus
• 17 - Part 2 Ch. 5: Medea Comes to Circe
• 18 - Part 2 Ch. 6: In the Land of the Phaeacians
• 19 - Part 2 Ch. 7: They Come to the Desert Land
• 20 - Part 2 Ch. 8: The Carrying Out of the Argo
• 21 - Part 2 Ch. 9: Near to Iolcus Again
• 22 - Part 3 Ch. 1: Atalanta the Huntress
• 23 - Part 3 Ch. 2: Peleus and his Bride from the Sea
• 24 - Part 3 Ch. 3: Theseus and the Minotaur
• 25 - Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 1: The Life and Labors of Heracles
• 26 - Part 3 Ch. 4, Section 2: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
• 27 - Part 3 Ch. 5: Admetus
• 28 - Part 3 Ch. 6: How Orpheus the Minstrel Went Down to the World of the Dead
• 29 - Part 3 Ch. 7: Jason and Medea