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Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play

In 438 BCE Alcestis was produced, a surviving play of a wife dying in a husband’s place and returning. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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In 438 BCE Alcestis was produced, a surviving play of a wife dying in a husband’s place and returning. The dated production is not Medea and not the Dionysia-gate heading as a mere festival adjective. Euripides’s documented role is: He produced Alcestis in 438, a death-and-return play in a tetralogy. The demos watched; he wrote; later Loeb is not 438 type. Alcestis is a different year and plot. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Euripides's documented role is: He produced Alcestis in 438, a death-and-return play in a tetralogy.

Context

A tetralogy slot, unnamed actors, and a male-citizen audience already sit in the file. A play is not unique authorship of every later opera. Later Loeb is access. Named others on the file: Unnamed actors, the demos as audience, and later editors share the production. The public setting is the file around -0438-01-01. The instrument stays Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play. The setting of Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play is the public file around -0438-01-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Why it matters

Complex shared theatre. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated festival play put a public bargaining-with-death story into the Dionysia file, distinct from Medea. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Euripides

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He produced Alcestis in 438, a death-and-return play in a tetralogy. The demos watched; he wrote; later Loeb is not 438 type.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactAlcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 438 · verified

    A dated festival play put a public bargaining-with-death story into the Dionysia file, distinct from Medea.

    • Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Perseus — Euripides, AlcestisPerseus Digital Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCEEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and Perseus independently date Alcestis as a 438 production distinct from Medea. Official: Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Euripides, Alcestis (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0088 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Euripides, Alcestis (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0088 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library).

Established: 438 Alcestis production. Not established: that Medea is this same play. Established: a sourced public record of Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play under -0438-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Alcestis is a different year and plot. Mixed effects of Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play. Naming Euripides does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0438-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorEuripides
  2. contributed toFactAlcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-alcestis-438

https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-alcestis-438

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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