Bowen, Zack. Padraic Colum: A Biographical-Critical Introduction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Bowen was a friend of Colum's as well as a student of his work, and Colum helped prepare this study. It contains an account of Colum's life and separate chapters describing and evaluating his poetry, drama, fiction, biographies, and essays.

Bowra, C. M. Heroic Poetry. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964. Bowra discusses epic poetry, which is derived from myth, and examines some of the heroic ideas that pervade the story of Jason.

Bulfinch, Thomas. Mythology: The Age of Fable. Bergenfield, NJ: New American Library, 1962. The first volume of a famous and highly respected multivolume work. Contains other versions of the same myths re-told by Colum in The Golden Fleece.

Hamilton, Edith. The Greek Way. New York: W. W. Norton, 1932. Written by the outstanding Greek scholar of this century, this book describes the...