Alceste

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Alceste may refer to:

• Alcestis, mythical Greek princess
• Alceste De Ambris, Italian socialist

Literature:

• Alcestis (play), by Euripides (438 BC)
• 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