Eurípides

Alcestes és una obra d'Eurípides. L'obra fou, probablement, produïda per primer cop en les Dionísia l'any 438 aC.

"Using to the full the last half century's great accessions to the comparative study of religion, [Dodds] has given a coherent and convincing reconstruction of the Dionysiac background--and, indeed, foreground--of the play, illustrating it with many instructive non-Greek and modern parallels.... Equally instructive …