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ALCESTIS (A1,CEST1s)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALCESTIS (A1,CEST1s)  , in
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Greek
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legend the daughter of
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Pelias and Anaxibia, and wife of
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Admetus,
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king of Pherae in
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Thessaly . She consented to
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die in
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place of her
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husband, and was afterwards rescued by Heracles . This beautiful
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story of conjugal devotion forms the subject of the
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Alcestis of
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Euripides, which furnished the basis of
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Robert
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Browning's Balaustion's
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Adventure .
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Sophocles also wrote an Alcestis, of which only fragments remain . See Dissel, Der Mythos von Admetus and Alkestis, 1882 .

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