On the unpredictability of life as theme and the value of "the gift of Prometheus", see Justina Gregory, "Euripides' Alcestis," Hermes 107 (1979), 259-270. Cf. Rosemary M. Nielsen, "Alcestis: A paradox in Dying," Ramus 5 (1976), 92-102 and Edward M. Bradley, "Admetus and the triumph of failure in Euripides' Alcestis," Ramus 9 (1980) 112-127.