| sir William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1850 - 858 pages
...with Alcestis, Admetus neglected to offera sacrifice to Artemis, but Apollo reconciled the goddess to him, and at the same time induced the Moirae to...deliverance from death, if at the hour of his death his father, mother, or wife would die for him. Alcestis died in his stead, but was brought back by Hercules... | |
| William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1850 - 1076 pages
...to Diana (Artemis), but Apollo reconriled the goddess to him, and at the same time induced the Moine to grant to Admetus deliverance from death, if at the hour of his death his father, mother, or wife would die for him. Al- i cestis died in his stead, but was brought back by... | |
| sir William Smith - 1858 - 946 pages
...with Alcestis, Admetus neglected to oner a sacrifice to Artemis, but Apollo reconciled the goddess to him, and at the same time induced the Moirae to...deliverance from death, if at the hour of his death his father, mother, or wife would die for him. Alcestis died in hia stead, but was brought back by Hercules... | |
| Greek and Roman biography - Classical biography - 1861 - 1116 pages
...having slain the Cyclops. (Apollod. iii. 10. i 4.) On the day of his marriage with Alcestis, Admetus neglected to offer a sacrifice to Artemis, and when...mother, or wife would die for him. Alcestis did so, but !\ им, or according to others Heracles, brought her bock to the upper world. (Apollod. i. 9. § 1... | |
| William Smith - Biography - 1867 - 1113 pages
...having slain the Cyclops. (Apollod. iii. 10. § 4.) On the day of his marriage with Alcestis, Admetus neglected to offer a sacrifice to Artemis, and when...deliverance from death, if at the hour of his death his father, mother, or wife would die for him. Alcestis did so, but K ora, or according to others Heracles,... | |
| William Smith - Biography - 1871 - 1074 pages
...Diana (Artemie), but Apollo reconciled the goddess to him, and at the same time induced the Moirœ to grant to Admetus deliverance from death, if at the hour of his death his father, mother, or wife would die for him. Alwas again restored t<> life.] Hence he spends six months... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - Mythology, Classical, in literature - 1889 - 302 pages
...Thrace (as here said) but of Pherae in Thessaly. Apollo obtained from the Moires a promise to grant Admetus deliverance from death if, at the hour of his death, his father, mother, or wife, would consent to die for him. Alcestis consented to die in his stead, and... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - Mythology, Classical, in literature - 1889 - 298 pages
...Thrace (as here said) but of Pheras in Thessaly. Apollo obtained from the Moiras a promise to grant Admetus deliverance from death if, at the hour of his death, his father, mother, or wife, would consent to die for him. Alcestis consented to die in his stead, and... | |
| William Smith - Biography - 1891 - 950 pages
...with Alcestis, Admetus neglected to offer a sacrifice to Artemis, but Apollo reconciled the goddess to him, and at the same time induced the Moirae to...deliverance from death, if at the hour of his death his father, mother, or wife would die for him. Alcestis died in his stead, but was brought back by Hercules... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1894 - 604 pages
...Thrace (as here said) but of Pherse in Thessaly. Apollo obtained from the Moiras a promise to grant Admetus deliverance from death if, at the hour of his death, his father, mother, or wife, would consent to die for him. Alcestis consented to die in his stead, and... | |
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