Alcestis
, by Beutner, KatharineNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781569478752 | 1569478759
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 2/1/2011
In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal wife; she loved her husband so much that she died and went to the underworld in his place. In this vividly-imagined debut, Katharine Beutner gives voice to the woman behind the ideal and reveals the part of the story thatrs"s never been told: What happened to Alcestis in the three days she spent in the underworld?