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    Rilke wrote a poem "Alkestis". Rutland Boughton's 1922 music-drama "Alkestis" is based on Gilbert Murray's translation of Euripides. H. P. Lovecraft and...
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    hospitality by contending with Death itself for Alkestis' life. When Thanatos ascended from Hades to claim Alkestis, Heracles sprung upon the god and overpowered...
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    Alcestis (play) (category Plays by Euripides)
    Alkēstis) is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It was first produced at the City Dionysia festival in 438 BC. Euripides presented...
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    actors. The most acclaimed Greek tragedians are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. These tragedians often explored many themes of human nature, mainly as...
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    & 64. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 8.220 & 48.230. Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 932 Scholia ad Euripides, Phoenissae 1116 Breitenberger, Barbara (2007). "Peitho:...
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    Retrieved 12 June 2024. Karlsson, Lena S (9 December 2021). "Spretig Alkestis på Dramaten". Magasin Opulens (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 June 2024. David...
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    (1921), ballet after Hugo von Hofmannsthal Alkestis, op. 35 (1924), Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Euripides Die Nächtlichen: Tanzsinfonien, op. 37...
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    Birds) (1928) Euripides: Hippolytos (Hippolytus) (1930) Euripides: Medea (1931) Aristophanes: Lysistrate (Lysistrata) (1932) Eurypides: Alkestis (Alcestis)...
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    Alcestis instead died for Admetus. The scene of death is described in Euripides' play Alcestis, where Thanatos, the god of death, takes Alcestis to the...
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    Erebus, who is the actual personification of death, although Euripides' play "Alkestis" states fairly clearly that Thanatos and Hades were one and the...
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