On the remarriage, see Michael Halleran, "Text and Ceremony at the Close of Euripides' Alkestis," Eranos 86, 1988, 123-129. Euripides manages to turn the funeral of Alcestis into the wedding of Alcestis and Admetus (see C. Luschnig, "Euripides' Alcestis and the Athenian oikos," forthcoming in Dioniso). Rush Rehm points out in "Medea and the Logos of the Heroic," Eranos 87 (1989) that in the Medea the marriage of "Glauke" becomes a funeral when Medea's poisons turn "the new bride into her own wedding torch," 112, making a suggestive comparison between these two plays.