Alcestis and Admetus, ancient Roman fresco from the Augusteum in Herculaneum, ItalyHerkules entreißt Alkestis dem Totengott Thanatos und führt sie dem Admetus zu by Johann Heinrich Tischbein (circa 1780)
In Greek mythology, Admetus (/ædˈmiːtəs/; Ancient Greek: ἌδμητοςAdmētos means 'untamed, untameable')[1][2] was a king of Pherae in Thessaly[3].
^Robert Graves, The Greek Myths rev. ed. 1960 (index).
Greek mythology, Admetus (/ædˈmiːtəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄδμητος Admētos means 'untamed, untameable') was a king ofPherae in Thessaly. Admetus succeeded his...
(Geography 9.5). The site is in the modern community of Velestino. In Homer Pherae was the home of King Admetus and his wife, Alcestis, (whom Heracles went into...
Pheres) was the founder ofPherae in Thessaly. Pheres was the son of Cretheus, King of Iolcus and Tyro. He was the brother of Aeson and Amythaon. He fled...
to serve as a slave to King AdmetusofPherae for a year. According to Diodorus Siculus, Zeus killed Asclepius because of complains from Hades, who was...
tradition.In Greek mythology AdmetusofPherae was a friend of Hercules. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polyommatus admetus. Wikispecies has information...
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the brains of a sheep that had been sacrificed before it had been put on the altar. Eumelus, succeeded his father Admetus as the King ofPherae, and his...
Xanthius, was chosen by the oracle as leader of a colony, one of ten sent out ofPherae by Admetus (sending out such colonies was a common practice to avoid...
the Suitors of Helen are those who came from many kingdoms of Greece to compete for the hand of the Spartan princess Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda...
trunk. Admetus, the king ofPherae, was also Apollo's lover. During his exile, which lasted either for one year or nine years, Apollo served Admetus as a...
princess ofPherae as daughter of King of Pheres and possibly, Periclymene, daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus. She was the possible sister ofAdmetus, Lycurgus...
daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus and Euryanassa . She became the mother ofAdmetus, Lycurgus, Eidomene (wife of Amythaon), Periopis (mother of Patroclus)...
This is a list of mythological characters who appear in narratives concerning the Trojan War. * See Catalogue of Ships ** See Trojan Battle Order This...
Calydonian boar hunt Acrisius, a king of Argos Actaeus, first king of Attica Admetus (Άδμητος), a king ofPherae who sailed with the Argonauts and participated...
ofPherae, Thessaly, mother of Thessalonica. Olympias of Epirus, daughter of Neoptolemus I, mother of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. Philinna of Larissa...
the Athenians and with Jason ofPherae, the Tagus of Thessaly. In 373 BC he appeared in Athens with Jason, for the purpose of defending the Athenian general...
the other great heroic adventure of that generation, the voyage of the Argonauts, which preceded it. The purpose of the hunt was to kill the Calydonian...
wall, a scenic painting referring to the myth ofAdmetus and Alcestis was found. Admetus, a king at Pherae in Thessaly, was promised by an oracle a longer...
list of officially named craters in the Solar System as named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. As of 2017, there is a total of 5...
substantially extant through fragments), the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis...
abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Most of the leaders were bound by the Oath of Tyndareus who made the Suitors of Helen swear that they...
4324/9780203581711. ISBN 9780203581711. Georganas, Ioannis. (2008) BETWEEN ADMETUS AND JASON: PHERAI IN THE EARLY IRON AGE Morgan, Catherine. Early Greek...
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