“Alceste” is a tragedy by the great ancient Greek playwright Euripides (480 - 406 BC).*** Queen Alceste agrees to go to the Kingdom of the Dead instead of her husband. Her victim is admired by the god Apollo himself, who enters into battle with the Demon of Death to restore her life... Other works of Euripides that have survived to this day are “Medea”, “Heraclides”, “Hippolytus”, “Andromache”, “The Supplicators”, “Hecuba”, “The Death of Polyxena”, “Hercules”, “The Trojan Women”. The authority of Euripides in world literature is undeniable. His tragedies were imitated hundreds of years later by many famous playwrights. His immortal works have been translated into different languages of the world.