Admetus
Americannoun
noun
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Two dancers, Lindsey Jones and Weaver Rhodes, fleshed out the silent roles of Alceste and Admetus, the lovers separated by death and then reunited.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2014
Ms. Hickok plays King Admetus, who behaves like a 19th-century vaudevillian, dressed in a sloppy tuxedo with crown slightly askew.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2011
They found inspiration for both Alcestis and Admetus in Jerry Lewis’s and Elvis Presley’s self-created regality, and by watching YouTube videos of the Yiddish actor Solomon Mikhoels playing King Lear in the 1930s.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2011
Written in 1767, it retells the legend of King Admetus, who is condemned to death by the gods, and of his wife Alcestis, who offers herself as a sacrifice instead.
From Time Magazine Archive
The house he had planned to spend a night in, that of his friend Admetus, a king in Thessaly, was a place of deep mourning when he came to it although he did not know.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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