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Euripides, Alcestis

  • Tragedy produced in 438 BCE.
  • Author
    Euripides
    Source subtype
    Tragedy & Satyr
    Language
    Greek
    Period
    Middle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)
    Place of creation
    🌍 Athens (Attica)
    TLG canon
    0006.035
    Mentions
    👤 Acastos (s. of Pelias)  👤 Admetos (Argonaut)  👤 Alcestis  👤 Alcmene  👤 Apollo  👤 Ares  👤 Asclepios  👤 Cerberos (dog)  👥 the Cyclopes (thunderbolt-makers)  👤 Lycaon (Thracian)  👤 Cycnos (s. of Ares)  👤 Demeter  👤 Electryon (s. of Perseus) 👤 Eumelos (Pheraian)  👤 Eurystheus  👤 Hestia  👤 Hades  👤 Zeus (Olympian)  🌍 the Underworld  👤 Heracles  👤 Orpheus  👤 Pelias (Thessalian)  👤 Persephone  👤 Pheres (Thessalian)  👥 the Mares of Diomedes  👤 Medousa (Gorgon)  👥 the Moirai  👤 Sthenelos (Mycenaean)  🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus 👤 Helios  🌍 Thrace (N. Greece)  🌍 Argos (city)  🌍 Pherai (Thessaly)  🌍 Tiryns (Argolid)  🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly)  🌍 Molossia (N. Greece)  🌍 Thessaly  🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly)  👤 Diomedes (Thracian)  🌍 the Land of the Bistones (Thrace)  🌍 River Acheron (Underworld)  🌍 Lake Boibe (Thessaly)  👤 Thanatos  🌍 Mount Othrys (Thessaly)  👤 Charon (boatman)  🏛️ the House of Admetos (Pherai) 👤 Periclymene (w. of Pheres)  🏛️ the Tomb of Alcestis (Pherai) 👤 Perimele (d. of Admetos) 🏺 the Chariot of Helios 🏺 the Bow of Apollo
    Commentary
    Tragedy produced in 438 BCE.
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