HERCULES, MY SHIPMATE—Robert Graves—Creative Age Press ($3). What the Golden Fleece really was—a cloak tossed to earth by Zeus when he was drunk, or a sheepskin book of alchemic secrets, or the gilded ...
Scientists, who go after everything with a fine-tooth comb, are always taking the fun out of mythology. Now they are currying the Golden Fleece. According to Greek legend, the fleece first belonged to ...