This title character's husband has only one virtue: his practice of xenia, or guest-friendship. This
This title character's husband has only one virtue: his practice of xenia, or guest-friendship. This drama opens with Apollo bemoaning his fate after slaying the Cyclopes and Death demanding that Apollo not take what is rightfully due to him. Minor characters include Eumelus, the title character's child, and Pheres, the king's father. A comic scene results when Herakles chides a servant for gloomy behavior. FTP, name this play by Euripides in which the title character is rescued from Death by Herakles after volunteering to die in place of her husband Admetus.
This title character's husband has only one virtue: his practice of xenia, or guest-friendship.
{Alcestis}