Ἄλκηστις

Alkestis, Alcestis

Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 May 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

2 words

Proper name.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄλκηστις· ὄνομα κύριον.

Betacode

*)/alkhstis: o)/noma ku/rion.

In mythology, the wife of Admetos, king of Pherai (in Thessaly), in whose place she was prepared to die. First mentioned in Homer and Hesiod, but most fully depicted in Euripides' tragedy Alkestis (438 BCE).