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Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play

Euripides’ Cyclops is the only complete surviving satyr play, a comic blinding of Polyphemus. 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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Euripides’ Cyclops is the only complete surviving satyr play, a comic blinding of Polyphemus. The dated festival genre-piece is not Medea and not Trojan Women. Euripides’s documented role is: He wrote the only complete surviving satyr play, a comic Odyssey episode. The demos watched; later Loeb is access; unique year is conventional. A satyr play is a different festival slot. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Euripides's documented role is: He wrote the only complete surviving satyr play, a comic Odyssey episode.

Context

A satyr chorus, unnamed actors, and a male-citizen audience already sit in the file. A satyr play is not unique authorship of Homer. Later Loeb is access. Named others on the file: Unnamed satyr-chorus, actors, and later editors share the play’s survival. The public setting is the file around -0425-01-01. The instrument stays Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play. The setting of Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play is the public file around -0425-01-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

Why it matters

Medium confidence on unique year. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated satyr play put public comic-and-chorus licence into the festival file, distinct from the tragic Medea/Bacchae rows. 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.

Shared responsibility is part of Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play. Naming Euripides does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0425-01-01 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.

Who was responsible

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

  • Euripides

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He wrote the only complete surviving satyr play, a comic Odyssey episode. The demos watched; later Loeb is access; unique year is conventional.

What changed

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

    1. FactCyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 425 · verified

    A dated satyr play put public comic-and-chorus licence into the festival file, distinct from the tragic Medea/Bacchae rows.

    • Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × 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 0.11 (weight 0.25 × 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, CyclopsPerseus Digital Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCEEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and Perseus independently identify Cyclops as Euripides’ surviving satyr play, distinct from the tragedies. Official: Britannica — Euripides, Cyclops (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Euripides, Cyclops (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0094 (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, Cyclops (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Euripides, Cyclops (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0094 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library).

Established: Cyclops as Euripides’ satyr play. Not established: a unique didaskalia year. Established: a sourced public record of Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play under -0425-01-01.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play are separate paths.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorEuripides
  2. contributed toFactCyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-cyclops

https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-cyclops

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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