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Alcestis

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Alcestis
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Individual
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Claims

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·Direct

Alcestis, mother of Eumelus, is described as the loveliest of Pelias’s daughters.

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“And those that held Pherae by the Boebean lake, with Boebe, Glaphyrae, and the populous city of Iolcus, these with their eleven ships were led by Eumelus, son of Admetus, whom Alcestis bore to him, loveliest of the daughters of Pelias.”

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·Direct
“Alcestis”

Passage preview

Book 2 · Passage 56

And those that held Pherae by the Boebean lake, with Boebe, Glaphyrae, and the populous city of Iolcus, these with their eleven ships were led by Eumelus, son of Admetus, whom Alcestis bore to him, loveliest of the daughters of Pelias.