'''''Alcestis''''' ([[Lingua Graeca|Graece]] Ἄλκηστις, ''Álkēstis'') est [[tragoedia]] graecaGraeca deperdita quam [[Phrynichus (tragicus)|Phrynichus]], [[Saeculum 6 a.C.n.|sexto saeculo a.C.n]] composuit.<ref>''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (TrGF), 3, FF 2-3.</ref> Post pauca decennia, tragicus [[Euripides]] [[Alcestis (Euripides)|opus suum eiusdem nominis]] composuit, et auctores posteriores indicant utrumque opus nonnulla, in primis dramatis personas et partes argumenti, in commune habuisse<ref>[http://books.google.it/books?id=cBMJVRBvlKoC&pg=PA14&dq=Phrynichus+alcestis&hl=it&sa=X&ei=G0nIUrS0BYaLyAOKlIHgBw&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBTgU#v=onepage&q=Phrynichus%20alcestis&f=false University of Chicago Torcular, 2013]</ref>. Sunt etiam qui credant hanc fabulam non tragicam sed [[Fabula satyrica|satyricam]] .<ref>>[http://books.google.it/books?id=4cYyb9kgDB8C&pg=PT6&dq=Phrynichus+alcestis&hl=it&sa=X&ei=60XIUtTiK-LCyQOS8IHQAQ&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Phrynichus%20alcestis&f=false Bibliotheca Alexandrinus, 1936]; [http://books.google.it/books?ei=f0fIUuDgD4bbygPg8oCAAQ&hl=it&id=GrJQAAAAIAAJ&dq=Phrynichus+alcestis&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Phrynichus+ Journal of classical studies, Volume 23, 1975]</ref> fuisse.
