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Alcestis

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Alcestis

In Greek mythology, the wife of Admetus, King of Thessaly. At their wedding, the god Apollo secured a promise from the Fates that Admetus might postpone his death, when the time came, if he could persuade someone else to die for him. Only his wife proved willing, but she was restored to life by Heracles. Her story was the theme of one of Euripides' earliest plays.



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The funeral of a rich person was to them what the funeral of Alcestis or Ophelia is to the educated.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
And those that held Pherae by the Boebean lake, with Boebe, Glaphyrae, and the populous city of Iolcus, these with their eleven ships were led by Eumelus, son of Admetus, whom Alcestis bore to him, loveliest of the daughters of Pelias.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
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