num_pages: 175
description: "The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets.' It is doubtful whether one can call it a tragedy at all. Yet it remains one of the most characteristic and delightful of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the most easily actable. And I notice that many judges who display nothing but a fierce satisfaction in sending other plays of that author to the block or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle daughter of Pelias." So begins the introduction to the Alcestis by Euripides. This edition is from the translation of and with a introduction by Gilbert Murray.
language: German
title: Alkestis
titlecomplete: Alkestis
genres: Classics, Mythology, Drama, Ancient, Greece, Tragedy, Plays, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 3915
publisher: Reclam