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Title	:	Alkestis
Author	:	Euripides
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 308 pages
Published	:	(first published -438)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. Fantasy. Mythology. Theatre. Fiction

Alkestis

Euripides

ebook | Pages: 308 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 2511 Users | 163 Reviews

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Last night, on our first evening of the Adelaide Fringe, we saw a fine production of Alcestis by the Scrambled Prince Theatre Company. It was most enjoyable, but I'm afraid that on returning home I immediately went and looked up an online translation. Could it really be the case that the dialogue between Death and Apollo in the second scene consisted mostly of off-colour BDSM jokes?

You will probably not be astonished to hear that the answer is no. I hang my head in shame. That I, of all people, should have been fooled so easily!

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I would love to give this play the full five stars, but despite Euripides fame and talent, this play was filled with way too many lamentations by the main characters-except for Heracles, who was probably the best character. I loved this story, from beginning to end.I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good tragedy.

Timeless play, awesome translation. My review from 2003 (which is apparently too long for this site (4000 character limit? Wha?)) [http://users.livejournal.com/_quodlib...]Some favorite bits:DEATHDon't you know how paltry and precariousLife is? I am not a god.I am the magnet of the cosmos.What you call deathIs simply my natural power,The pull of my gravity. And lifeIs a brief weightlessness-an aberrationFrom the status quo-which is me....Their lives are the briefest concession,My concession, a

Read this because I read the Silent Patient, and found it interesting

I'm pretty sure this was either a masterpiece or a train wreck. I'm leaning towards masterpiece. Admetus knows he will die soon, but Death offers him the chance to live if he can find someone to take his place. Admetus' wife, Alcestis, accepts. As Lattimore writes in the introduction, the tale isn't so much "How noble must a wife be to take her husband's place in death," as "How selfish and cowardly must a husband be to let his wife die for him." But Heracles rescues Alcestis and brings her back

The play opens with the agon of Apollo and 'Death' (Atropos, maybe, or Thanatos?), regarding how Lachesis had allotted a specific amount of time to Admetus, monarch of Pherae, but Apollo, in recompense for kindness shown to him during his own punishment, persuaded Hades to permit Admetus "to escape the moment of his death / by giving the lower powers someone else to die" (ll. 13-14). The text acknowledges that this practice sets up a fungibility of persons that, assuming normal market

The fact that the message of this play was "the most noble wives are the ones that die/give up their own life for their husbands" didn't sit well with me, even if I enjoyed the other themes discussed.