A great reader reaction

From SonomaLass on Twitter, a smart essay response to reading Alcestis that touches on one of the central problems of the myth:

Alcestis is one of those really problematic figures for a feminist — she's SUCH a creature of the patriarchy, and yet she's obviously a strong and brave woman.  If you don't know the myth, here it is in a nutshell:  she volunteers to go to Hades in her husband's place when it is his time to die, and then Heracles (a friend of her husband's) invades Hades and...