AMETE. Admetus, king of Pherae in Thessaly, succeeded in the seemingly impossible tasks set him by King Pelias and married the king's daughter, Alcestis. When his time came to die, he asked his old parents to die in his stead, and they refused. Then Alcestis offered herself, and he accepted. Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, would not accept Alcestis and sent her back to the light (Fulgentius, Mythologies I.22).

Pandarus mentions the daughter of King Amete, Tr I.659-665. Neither Ovid nor Boccaccio makes mention of this daughter. Chaucer may have learned of her from a gloss in Filippo Ceffi's Italian translation of Heroides V. [Alceste]

Amete is a variant of Italian Ameto, in Boccaccio's Tes vi.55.1.