Book description
In order to reclaim his father's kingdom, Jason has been sent on an
impossible mission - to take the golden ram's fleece that lies far
away, guarded by a dragon. Jason, who is so attractive that women fall
instantly in love with him, sets sail in the Argo, along with
the greatest heroes of ancient Greece, including the surly (and often
drunk) Hercules, the enchanting musician Orpheus and the battling
twins Castor and Pollux. As they battle clashing rocks, monsters and
seductresses, watched over by pitiless gods, they will learn that
victory comes at a price.
In The Golden Fleece Robert Graves transforms Greek myth into
a thrilling and richly imagined story, bringing the ancient world
vividly alive.
Robert Graves was a poet, professor, and the author of
Goodbye to
All That
(1929), a landmark anti-heroic memoir of life in the trenches during
World War I. He is even better known for his historical novels about the
Roman emperor Claudius:
I, Claudius
(1934) and
Claudius the God
(1935). Despite those successes, Graves was primarily a poet: he
published dozens of volumes of his verse during his life, and was
professor of poetry at Oxford from 1961-66. Graves lived most of his
adult life on the island of Majorca, at first with fellow poet Laura
Riding, and later with his second wife Beryl Hodge.
