Alceste

Alceste may refer to:

Literature

• Alcestis (play), a 438 BC play by Euripides
• Alceste, a character in The Legend of Good Women by Chaucer
• Alceste, a character in Le Misanthrope by Molière

Operas

• Alceste (Lully), a 1674 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
• Alceste (Handel), a 1750 opera by George Frideric Handel
• Alceste (Gluck), a 1767 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
• Alceste (Schweitzer), a 1773 opera by Anton Schweitzer
• Alceste (Strungk), a 1680 opera by Nicolaus Adam Strungk
• Alceste, a 1768 opera by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
• Alceste, a 1922 opera by Rutland Boughton

Other uses

• Alcestis or Alceste, a princess in Greek mythology
• Alceste (trilobite), a trilobite genus
• HMS Alceste (1793), a 32-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1793 and sold in 1802
• HMS Alceste (1806), a 38-gun fifth rate captured in 1806 and wrecked in 1817

People with the given name

• Alceste De Ambris, Italian socialist

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