Alcestis (Euripides)

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English-language translations of
Ἄλκηστις (Alcestis)
by Euripides

Ἄλκηστις (Alkēstis, Latin: Alcestis) is a tragedy and one of the earliest surviving works of the Greek playwright Euripides. Admetus has made a deal with Death that his wife Alcestis should die in his place.

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English-language translations of Ἄλκηστις include:

Alcestis, translated by Robert Potter (1781, 1783) 1st ed.
Alcestis, translated by T. A. Buckley (1858)
Alcestis, translated from the Paley text by E. P. Coleridge in The Plays of Euripides (1891) 1910 printing
Alcestis, translated by Arthur S. Way in The Tragedies of Euripides, in English verse (1894)
The Alcestis of Euripides, translated by Gilbert Murray (1915)

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