# Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play

Date: 425

## The fact

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](/people/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. Do not twin this with tragic productions. 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. The demos watched; later Loeb is access; unique year is conventional.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. 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.

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.

## Evidence and sources

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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Euripides, Cyclops (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0094; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Euripides, Cyclops (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0094; Perseus Digital Library).

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

## Significance

Improving social-cohesion path: a public comic festival play. 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.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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. Do not twin this with tragic productions. A satyr play is a different festival slot. Mixed effects of Cyclops survives as Euripides’ complete satyr play are separate paths.

## 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:1999.01.0094
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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