Eurípides

"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 …

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