Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Publications of Emmet Robbins xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Public Poetry 1
7. The Education of Achilles 58
8. Achilles to Thetis: Iliad 1.365–412 72
9. Alcman’s Partheneion: Legend and Choral Ceremony 88
10. ‘Every Time I Look at You . . .’: Sappho Thirty-One 101
11. Who’s Dying in Sappho Fr. 94? 108
12. Sappho Fr. 94: A Further Note 119
13. Sappho, Aphrodite, and the Muses 121
14. Heracles, the Hyperboreans, and the Hind: Pindar, Ol. 3 145
15. Intimations of Immortality: Pindar, Ol. 3.34–5 157
16. The Broken Wall, The Burning Roof and Tower: Pindar, Ol. 8.31–46 167
17. The Gifts of the Gods: Pindar’s Third Pythian 175
18. Jason and Cheiron: The Myth of Pindar’s Fourth Pythian 192
19. Cyrene and Cheiron: The Myth of Pindar’s Ninth Pythian 202
20. Pindar’s Oresteia and the Tragedians 217
21. Nereids with Golden Distaffs: Pindar, Nem. 5 229
22. The Divine Twins in Early Greek Poetry 238
23. Famous Orpheus 254
24. To Be Redeemed from Fire by Fire: The Deaths of Heracles and Siegfried 275
25. Bibliography 285
26. General Index 309
27. Index Locorum 318
28. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 325