ALCESTIS (A1,CEST1s)
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ALCESTIS (A1,CEST1s) , in Greek legend the daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia, and wife of Admetus, king See Also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING,
RUFUS (1755–1827) - KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
of Pherae in Thessaly . She consented to die in place of her husband , and was afterwards rescued by Heracles. This beautiful story of conjugal devotion forms the subject of the Alcestis of Euripides, which furnished the basis of Robert Browning's Balaustion's Adventure . Sophocles also wrote an Alcestis , of which only fragments remain.
See Dissel, Der Mythos von Admetus and Alkestis, 1882.
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