Quartigod daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia; the most beautiful of the Peliades per Apollod. 1.9.15; the canonical-Euripidean tragic-protagonist of the Alcestis (438 BCE — the prosatyric drama performed in fourth position at the Dionysia). Married Admetus of Pherae after he yoked a lion and a boar to the same chariot with Apollo's help. When Admetus's appointed-death-day came and neither his aged parents nor any other agreed to die in his place, only Alcestis volunteered — the canonical-Greek voluntary-self-substitution-for-the-husband narrative-paradigm. Rescued from Hades by Heracles per the canonical-Euripidean tradition (Heracles wrestled Thanatos at the tomb); per Plato Symposium 179b-d, the gods admired her self-sacrifice so deeply that they granted her return-from-Hades. Mother of Eumelus, the Iliadic Pherae-contingent leader (Hom. Il. 2.715-716).