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Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE

In 455 BCE Euripides first competed at the Dionysia, with the lost Peliades in the record. The dated first entry is not the 441 prize and not Medea. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 455 BCE Euripides first competed at the Dionysia, with the lost Peliades in the record. The dated first entry is not the 441 prize and not Medea. Euripides’s documented role is: Didaskaliai record a first competition in 455 with the lost Peliades. The demos watched; he entered; later fame is not 455 type. First entry is not first prize. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Euripides's documented role is: Didaskaliai record a first competition in 455 with the lost Peliades.

Context

Aeschylus’s recently dead generation, unnamed choregoi, and lost plays already sit in the file. A first entry is not unique authorship of the genre. Later Loeb is not 455 type. Named others on the file: Unnamed choregoi, actors, and later didaskaliai compilers share the first entry. The public setting is the file around -0455-01-01. The instrument stays Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE. The setting of Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE is the public file around -0455-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. First entry is not first prize. Mixed effects of Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE are separate paths.

Why it matters

Complex shared theatre. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated first entry put a public tragic competitor into the festival file, distinct from later surviving plays. 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.

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

Who was responsible

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

  • Euripides

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Didaskaliai record a first competition in 455 with the lost Peliades. The demos watched; he entered; later fame is not 455 type.

What changed

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

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Greek tragedy, Dionysia careersEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCEEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica independently dates a 455 first competition as distinct from later surviving plays. Official: Britannica — Euripides, first competition 455 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Britannica — Greek tragedy, Dionysia careers (https://www.britannica.com/art/Greek-tragedy (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). 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, first competition 455 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Greek tragedy, Dionysia careers (https://www.britannica.com/art/Greek-tragedy (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: 455 first Dionysia competition. Not established: that any surviving play is this tetralogy. Established: a sourced public record of Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE under -0455-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE. Naming Euripides does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0455-01-01 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.

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.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorEuripides
  2. contributed toFactEuripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-first-compete-455

https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-first-compete-455

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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