Alceste

Alceste may refer to:

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

Literature:

  • Alcestis (play), by Euripides (438 BC)
  • Alceste, the queen and wife of the god of love in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women
  • 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

In the military:

  • HMS Alceste, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy