Niall W. Slater is S. C. Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek in the Department of Classics at Emory University, USA.

All in all, this book is a serious, informed, and nuanced study of Euripides’ Alcestis, which shows that it is still possible to say something new and important on this most crowded of topics, and to do so with eloquence and lucidity.

• 1. 438 and All ThatThe Myth(s)Production Conditions2. The Action of the PlayPrologueParodosEpisodeFirst StasimonEpisodeSecond StasimonEpisodeThird StasimonEpisodeKommosEpisode and Exodos3. Themes of the PlayThe House and the DoorHusband and WifeParents and ChildrenXenia, Philia, and CharisLife and DeathLamentFame and InfamyDoubles and OppositesAlcestis' StatueMarriage, Remarriage - and Silence4. Afterlives of an AfterlifeIn AntiquityFrom Late Antiquity to the RenaissanceFrom Shakespeare to the Nineteenth CenturyThe Twentieth CenturyChronologyGlossaryGuide to Further ReadingBibliography

Niall W. Slater is S. C. Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek in the Department of Classics at Emory University, USA.

All in all, this book is a serious, informed, and nuanced study of Euripides’ Alcestis, which shows that it is still possible to say something new and important on this most crowded of topics, and to do so with eloquence and lucidity.

• 1. 438 and All ThatThe Myth(s)Production Conditions2. The Action of the PlayPrologueParodosEpisodeFirst StasimonEpisodeSecond StasimonEpisodeThird StasimonEpisodeKommosEpisode and Exodos3. Themes of the PlayThe House and the DoorHusband and WifeParents and ChildrenXenia, Philia, and CharisLife and DeathLamentFame and InfamyDoubles and OppositesAlcestis' StatueMarriage, Remarriage - and Silence4. Afterlives of an AfterlifeIn AntiquityFrom Late Antiquity to the RenaissanceFrom Shakespeare to the Nineteenth CenturyThe Twentieth CenturyChronologyGlossaryGuide to Further ReadingBibliography

Niall W. Slater is S. C. Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek in the Department of Classics at Emory University, USA.

All in all, this book is a serious, informed, and nuanced study of Euripides’ Alcestis, which shows that it is still possible to say something new and important on this most crowded of topics, and to do so with eloquence and lucidity.

• 1. 438 and All ThatThe Myth(s)Production Conditions2. The Action of the PlayPrologueParodosEpisodeFirst StasimonEpisodeSecond StasimonEpisodeThird StasimonEpisodeKommosEpisode and Exodos3. Themes of the PlayThe House and the DoorHusband and WifeParents and ChildrenXenia, Philia, and CharisLife and DeathLamentFame and InfamyDoubles and OppositesAlcestis' StatueMarriage, Remarriage - and Silence4. Afterlives of an AfterlifeIn AntiquityFrom Late Antiquity to the RenaissanceFrom Shakespeare to the Nineteenth CenturyThe Twentieth CenturyChronologyGlossaryGuide to Further ReadingBibliography