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- Alkestis nevermanni is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Alkestis. "Alkestis Liebke, 1939". Catalogue of Life...
- hospitality by contending with Death itself for Alkestis' life. When Thanatos ascended from Hades to claim Alkestis, Heracles sprung upon the god and overpowered...
- published in 1879. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a poem "Alkestis". Rutland Boughton's 1922 music-drama "Alkestis" is based on Gilbert Murray's translation of Euripides...
- Herkules entreißt Alkestis dem Totengott Thanatos und führt sie dem Admetus zu by Johann Heinrich Tischbein (circa 1780)...
- Alcestis (/ælˈsɛstɪs/; Ancient Gr****: Ἄλκηστις, Alkēstis) is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Gr**** playwright Euripides. It was first produced at the...
- the Cities, Will Wat, If Not, What Will?, Sawdust Caesar, Silver T****ie, Alkestis, The Mother and Female Transport. He directed and performed in Heroes of...
- Cheapside. He also directed several productions, including Silver T****ie, Alkestis, The Shoemakers and Pig Bank. He returned in 1979 to perform in Guys and...
- und einem Vorspiel (1878) Alte und neue Kinder-Lieder und Reime (1890) Alkestis: Schauspiel in vier Aufzügen. (1891) Mathilde Wesendonck was portra****...
- who is the actual personification of death, although Euripides's play "Alkestis" states fairly clearly that Thanatos and Hades were one and the same deity...
- In art, she was also depicted at the weddings for Dionysus and Ariadne, Alkestis and Admetos, Thetis and Peleus, and at the union of Aphrodite and Adonis...