LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
proper noun

Alcestis

Meaning

  1. daughter of Pelias

Alcestis, is, or Alcestē, ēs, f., = Ἄλκηστις or Ἀλκήστη,
I. daughter of Pelias, and wife of Admetus, king of Pherœ, for the preservation of whose life she resigned her own, but was afterwards brought back from the lower world by Hercules, and restored to her husband, v. Hyg. Fab. 51 and 251; Mart. 4, 75; Juv. 6, 652.—Also, a play of Nœvius, Gell. 19, 7.

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

Biography & mythologyAlcestisAlcestis. or ALCESTE (Ἄλκηστις or Ἀλκέστη), a daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia, and mother of Eumelus and Admetus. (Apollod. 1.9.10, 15.) Homer (Hom. I…

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What does Alcestis mean in Latin?
Alcestis, a proper noun, means “daughter of Pelias”.