The Alcestis lacks the detail of horror cen-
tral to some of the better-regarded Euripidean
tragedies which include the Medea and the Bacchae.
Yet different capabilities of this early play are common
of Euripidean tragedy. A god introduces the
play in a divine prologue speech (Apollo, in
this example), and 3 gods seem on degree:
besides Apollo, we additionally see Heracles and Death.
Heracles, of path, is best partly or debat-
ably a divine discern, but in this example, he performs,
very efficaciously, the role of deus ex machina. As
within the Medea, a person who simply occurs to
be passing through, and who receives a choose
from the central person, plays a first-rate position
in the plot. Most extensively, we might observe
the radical position of a lady in rela
