A review by balyeska
Alcestis by Euripides

3.0

The goddesses agreed to let Admetus escape his designated day of death
if he could satisfy the gods below by sending in his place another corpse.

Admetus went to everyone who loved him: his father, and his old mother—who gave him life—
and asked them one by one if they would do it.

No one except his wife would die for him and see the light no more.