Audiobook: Alcestis by LibriVox Volunteers

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alcestis Author: LibriVox Volunteers Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 17 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Alcestis is the earliest surviving play by Euripides. Alcestis, the devoted wife of King Admetus, has agreed to die in his place, and at the beginning of the play she is close to death. In the first scene, Apollo argues with Thanatos (Death), asking to prolong Alcestis' life, but Thanatos refuses. Apollo leaves, but suggests that a man will come to Pherae who will save Alcestis. Euripides' play is perhaps the most unusual Greek drama ever written: a tragedy that is not a tragedy. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)