Next he killed a nine-headed water serpent called the Hydra, which lived in the country of Argos , ...
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He learned quickly, and soon his skill was talked of up and down the land. Before Hercules's birth,...
HERCULES When Hercules was a baby he liv ed in the palace of Amphitryon, King of Thebes. Although ...
The next day, the Argo reached the Symplegades, which rose up out of the sea like two strong tow er...
Just as he had raised a morsel of food to his mouth, a Harpy would swoop down with a great rush of w...
2 When the Argo, as the new ship was called, was ready for the voyage, the heroes we nt on board, ...
Then King Pelias gave orders to the heralds to go into the market-place with their trumpets and pro...
There the ram was sacrificed to Jupiter. Phrixus gave its beautiful golden fleece t o the king of C...
After Jason had been in Iolcus for about five days, he gathered his kinsmen together, and went b ef...
He kindly offered to carry her over, and his offer was accepted. He noticed that sh e looked very s...
When the nurse brought Jason to Chiron's cave, Chiron's wife took the child and cared for him as if...
He held this flower out before him, at arm's length, and the moment the dragon smelt its strange odo...
When he reached the stream between the two high rocks, he looked sharply for the dragon, but it was ...
When the last armed warrior of the dragon's brood had fallen, the Argonauts set up a loud cheer for ...
King AEetes looked on at the ploughing in speechless wonder. This was somethin g he had never seen ...