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

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