Alcestis Page

ALCESTIS
A)/LKHSTIS

Author: Euripides
Date: 438BC
Greek text: The Perseus Project has a Greek text on-line.

Bibliography

Texts and Commentaries

Conacher, D.J. Euripides: Alcestis. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1988.
Dale, A.M. Euripides: Alcestis. Clarendon: Oxford, 1954.
Diggle, J. Euripidis Fabulae. 3 vols. Clarendon: Oxford, 1981-1994. 1.31-83. Garzya, A. Euripides: Alcestis. Leipzig: Teubner, 1980.

Student edition

Hamilton, Richard with Michael W. Haslam. Euripides' Alcestis. Byrn Mawr: Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 1980.

Translations available:

Arrowsmith, William. Euripides: Alcestis. London: Oxford UP, 1974.
Chappell, Fred. Euripides, 3: Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, the Phoenician Women, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1998. 1-59.
Hadas, Moses and James McLean. Ten Plays by Euripides. New York: Bantam, 1960. 1-30.
Kovacs, David. Euripides: Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea. Loeb Classical Library 12. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1994. 151-281.
Lattimore, Richmond. The Complete Greek Tragedies. David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, eds. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1955. With many reprints.
Roche, Paul. Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Bacchae. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974.
Vellacott, Philip. Euripides: Three Plays: Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis. New York: Penguin, 1953. 121-57.

Studies

CAST OF CHARACTERS

APOLLO, god of youth and life

THANATOS, god of death

CHORUS of Pheran citizens

MAID, a servant to Alcestis

ALCESTIS, daughter of Pelias, wife of Admetus, queen of Pherae

ADMETUS, son of Pheres, husband of Alcestis, king of Pherae

CHILDREN of Admetus and Alcestis (silent)

HERACLES, son of Zeus and Alcmena

PHERES, father of Admetus

MALE SERVANT to Admetus

OTHER SERVANTS to Admetus (silent)

Translation by Frederick Williams
revised by Wilfred E. Major, 1998