Alcestis
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. Also Alkestis the wife of Admetus who gave up her life in order that the Fates might save the life of Admetus and later was brought back from Hades by Hercules.
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(italics) a tragedy (438 b.c.) by Euripides.
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Alcestis Oberg wrote in to USA Today “in defense of cookie bakers,” writing: “They call me ‘Cooky.’
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2016
Looking for a model for the dynamic and powerful Alcestis, they came up with Russell, in her role in the film “His Girl Friday.”
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
Though a quintessential modernist, she was attracted to doomed classical heroines: Clytemnestra, Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra.
From Time Magazine Archive
He passes over also one of the most famous tales about Hercules, how he freed Alcestis from death, which was the subject of another of Euripides’ plays.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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