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Daughter of Pelias whose story was dramatized by Euripides
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alcestis
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Alcestis (; , Alkēstis ) is a princess in Greek mythology , known for her love of her husband . Her story was popularised in Euripides 's tragedy Alcestis . She was the daughter of Pelias , king of Iolcus , and either Anaxibia or Phylomache . In the story, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wife of Admetus, she offered her life for her husband and was rescued from the Underworld by Herakles, from Greek Alkestis , literally "valiant, courageous," from alke "protection, help, strength, power."
Usage examples of alcestis.
He knew her now,-- Alcestis,--and he left her with due thanks: No goddess, but a mortal, to be won By such a simple feat as driving boars And lions to his chariot.
Admetus prayed for his celestial aid To win Alcestis, which the god vouchsafed, Granting with smiles, as grant all gods, who smite With stern hand, sparing not for piteousness, But give their gifts in gladness.
His mother came, Clymene, and with her His father, Pheres: his unconscious child They brought him, while forlorn Alcestis sat Discouraged, with the face of desolation.
With broken blessings, inarticulate joy And tears, Alcestis thanked Hyperion, And worshipped.
The funeral of a rich person was to them what the funeral of Alcestis or Ophelia is to the educated.
Under the name of Philogenet, a clerk or scholar of Cambridge, the poet relates that, summoned by Mercury to the Court of Love, he journeys to the splendid castle where the King and Queen of Love, Admetus and Alcestis, keep their state.
Admetus and Alcestis, we have all the personages and machinery necessary for one of those erotic contentions, in the present poem we see the personages and the machinery actually at work, upon another scene and under other guises.
The bond between the story of Alcestis, who goes down to death to save the life of Admetus, and that of Leonore, who ventures her life to save Florestan, is closer than that of the Orphic myth, for though the alloy only serves to heighten the sheen of Eurydice's virtue, there is yet a grossness in the story of Aristaeus's unlicensed passion which led to her death, that strongly differentiates it from the modern tale of wifely love and devotion.