Admetus
mythological figure · 6 works · 7 mentions · 17 anchored passages
Admetus, king of the Molossians · King Admetus · king of Thessaly · lord of Pherae · son of Pheres
in the texts
Alcestis
King of Pherae in Thessaly, husband of Alcestis, who was granted escape from his fated death if he found someone to die in his place; his wife Alcestis volunteers, and the play follows his grief and his continued hospitality toward Heracles.
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Stromata
Admetus, the Thessalian king served by Apollo, and (in a separate catalogue) an oracle-monger of the same name.
"And in time Apollo was born" — and no wonder, since he is found serving Admetus, together with Heracles, for a great year.
For let there be silence about Cometes the Cretan, Cinyras the Cypriot, Admetus the Thessalian, Aristaeus the Cyrenian, Amphiaraus the Athenian, Timoxenus the Corcyrean, Demaenetus the Phocaean, Epigenes the Thespian, Nicias the Carystian, Ariston the Thessalian, Dionysius the Carthaginian, Cleophon the Corinthian, and Hippo the daughter of Chiron, and Boeo and Manto, and the multitude of the Siby …
Symposium
Mythical king for whom Alcestis chose to die
Do you suppose, she asked, that Alcestis would have died for Admetus, or Achilles have sought death on the corpse of Patroclus, or your own Codrus have welcomed it to save the children of his queen, if they had not expected to win a deathless memory for valor, which now we keep?
Ad Nationes
Mythical king whom Apollo served as a slave.
Thus he who serves both makes lords, and the surrendered slave of Admetus increases the Roman citizens with empire, while he ruined his liberal worshipper Croesus by deceiving him with ambiguous oracles.
Apologeticum
King to whom Apollo was assigned as flock-tender.
One assigns Apollo to King Admetus for the feeding of his flocks;
History of the Peloponnesian War
King of the Molossians, previously unfriendly to Themistocles, who nonetheless honors his supplication and protects him from pursuit.
Besides, he had himself opposed the king with regard to some request merely, and not on a point of bodily safety;
but as he wished to go to the king, sent him by land to the other sea, to Pydna, which was in Alexander's dominions.
but Themistocles, addressing himself as a suppliant to his wife, was instructed by her to take their child, and seat himself on the hearth.