The Alcestis of Euripides

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Excerpt from The Alcestis of Euripides: Edited, With an Introduction and Critical and Exegetical NotesFew Greek myths have become ore celebrated or have fur nished a greater stimulus to literaryufort than that of Admetus and Alcestis. Lt would be both intersting and profitable to trace the evolution of the story from itsorigiu down to the time of Euripides, but, unfortunately, so any links in the chain are wanting that much must be left to (njecture. With the various solar-myth theories that have beeisuggested to account for the legend 1 will not weary the reader they have long since been gathered to their fathers. They my be found stated at length in the dissertation by Karl Dissel, 'uar Alf/thus eon Admetos and Alkestis (brandenburg, 1882) pp. 613 The Euhemeristic explana tion Of the myth which was propose by Gottfried Hermann (see the dissertation prefixed to his Wis pp. Xiii. If.) may also be dismissed as quite untenable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.