Public poetry : Alcman, Stesichorus, Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides -- The education of Achilles -- Achilles to Thetis : Iliad 1.365-412 -- Alcman's Partheneion : legend and choral ceremony -- 'Every time I look at you...' : Sappho thirty-one -- Who's dying in Sappho Fr. 94? -- Sappho Fr. 94 : a further note -- Sappho, Aphrodite, and the muses -- Heracles, the Hyperboreans, and the Hind : Pindar, Ol. 3 -- Intimations of immortality : Pindar, Ol. 3.34-5 -- The broken wall, the burning roof and tower : Pindar, Ol. 8.31-46 -- The gifts of the gods : Pindar's third Pythian -- Jason and Cheiron : the myth of Pindar's fourth Pythian -- Cyrene and Cheiron : the myth of Pindar's ninth Pythian -- Pindar's Oresteia and the tragedians -- Nereids with golden distaffs : Pindar, Nem. 5 -- The divine twins in early Greek poetry -- Famous Orpheus -- To be redeemed from fire by fire : the deaths of Heracles and Siegfried.