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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wife of King Admetus of Thessaly, who agreed to die in place of her husband and was later rescued from Hades by Hercules.
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Alcestis is a princess from Greek mythology, made popular in the Euripides play of the same name.
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Alcestis is a princess from Greek mythology, made popular in the Euripides play of the same name.
BookBanter Episode 30 with Katharine Beutner « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Alcestis is taken to Hades and shortly after is rescued by Heracles.
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Alcestis is taken to Hades and shortly after is rescued by Heracles.
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Alcestis is a princess from Greek mythology, made popular in the Euripides play of the same name.
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"Alcestis" -- there is neither space nor need to speak here, save to notice the bold declamations in the "Baptist" against tyranny and priestcraft; and to notice also that these tragedies gained for the poor Scotsman, in the eyes of the best scholars of Europe, a credit amounting almost to veneration.
Historical Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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Katharine Beutner’s first novel, Alcestis, is set in Mycenaean Greece.
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Katharine Beutner’s first novel, Alcestis, is set in Mycenaean Greece.
BookBanter Episode 30 with Katharine Beutner « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Katharine Beutner’s first novel, Alcestis, is set in Mycenaean Greece.
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Alcestis is a princess from Greek mythology, popularized in Euripides’s tragedy of the same name.
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