Be happy, drink, think each day your own as you live it and leave…

Euripides. "Alcestis." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Hercules, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Euripides. Ἄλκηστις [Alcestis]. 438 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

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