1. Alcestis
Alcestis, the Queen and tragic figure of Euripides" Alcestis, is not an exception to all those people who refuse to keep living in order to let her husband (the king of Thessalia) live. ... His plays contain, hidden below the popular surface, an appeal to men to stop deceiving themselves about the benevolence of their institutions really involve (Vellacott, 10). // "His study of this, the most insistent and universal problem of human life, achieved a radical profundity, a freedom from conventional assumption, which was rare in his day as it has been in every century since. .....
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- Grade Level: High School