Alcestis (Euripides)

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Ἄλκηστις (Alcestis)
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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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190741Ἄλκηστις (Alcestis) — Euripides

English-language translations of Ἄλκηστις include:

Alcestis, translated by Robert Potter (1781, 1783) 1st ed.
Alcestis, translated by T. A. Buckley (1858)
The Alcestis of Euripides, translated by W. Fielding Nevins (1870) (external scan)
The Alcestis of Euripides, translated by William Cudworth (1888) (external scan) (Commons file)
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)
A Literal Translation of the Alcestis of Euripides, translated by Thomas Nash (1898) (external scan)
Euripides' Alcestis, translated by Herbert Kynaston (1906) (external scan)
The Alcestis of Euripides, translated by the Class of 1900 of Beloit College (1908) (external scan)
Euripides' Alkestis, adapted and arranged for performance in girls' schools by Elsie Fogerty (1909) (external scan)
The Alcestis of Euripides, translated by Gilbert Murray (1915)

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted.

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