Alceste
Alceste may refer to:
Literature
- Alcestis (play), a 438 BC play by Euripides
- Alceste, a character in The Legend of Good Women by Chaucer
- Alceste, a character in Le Misanthrope by Molière
Operas
- Alceste (Lully), a 1674 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Alceste (Handel), a 1750 opera by George Frideric Handel
- Alceste (Gluck), a 1767 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Alceste (Schweitzer), a 1773 opera by Anton Schweitzer
- Alceste (Strungk), a 1680 opera by Nicolaus Adam Strungk
- Alceste, a 1768 opera by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
- Alceste, a 1922 opera by Rutland Boughton
Other uses
- Alcestis or Alceste, a princess in Greek mythology
- Alceste (trilobite), a trilobite genus
- HMS Alceste (1793), a 32-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1793 and sold in 1802
- HMS Alceste (1806), a 38-gun fifth rate captured in 1806 and wrecked in 1817
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