# Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play

Date: 438

## The fact

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](/people/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. Do not twin this with Medea 431. 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. The demos watched; he wrote; later Loeb is not 438 type.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Euripides, Alcestis (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0088; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Euripides, Alcestis (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0088; Perseus Digital Library).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving social-cohesion path: a public festival play of death and return. 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.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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. Do not twin this with Medea 431. 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.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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.

## People

- Euripides: https://factrail.ai/people/euripides

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0088
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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