human
Nor let Zeus lose the monarch meant in thee.
gpt
she rejoins by adding the
human
that his refusal of her sacrifice would be in effect a surrender of the supreme duty laid upon him of reigning a righteous king,--that this life-purpose of his is above joy and sorrow, and the death which she will undergo for his and its sake, her highest good as it is his. And in effect, her death, instead of paralysing him, redoubles the vigour of his soul, so that Alkestis, living on in a mind made better by her presence, has not in the old tragic sense died at all, and finds her claim to enter Hades rudely rejected by