Alceste
Alceste may refer to:
- Alcestis, mythical Greek princess
- Alceste De Ambris, Italian socialist
Literature:
- Alcestis (play), by Euripides (438 BC)
- Alceste, the queen and wife of the god of love in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women
- Alceste, character in Le Misanthrope by Molière.
Operas:
- Alceste (Lully), by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1674)
- Alceste (Handel), by George Frideric Handel (1750)
- Alceste (Gluck), by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1767)
- Alceste, by Anton Schweitzer (1772)
- Alceste, by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1768)
- Alceste, by Rutland Boughton (1922)
Similarly named operas:
- L’Antigona delusa da Alceste, by Pietro Andrea Ziani (1660)
- Alkestis, by Egon Wellesz (1924)
In palaeontology:
- Alceste, a genus of extinct trilobites
In the military:
- HMS Alceste, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
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