Admetus
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
The revised libretto stays closer to Euripedes' original, restores Hercules as the hero who saves King Admetus and Queen Alcestis from death.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hercules dined alone, but he understood that Admetus must as a matter of form attend the funeral and the fact did not stand in the way of his enjoying himself.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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