# Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE

Date: 455

## The fact

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](/people/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. Do not twin this with 441 prize. 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. The demos watched; he entered; later fame is not 455 type.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/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. Do not twin this with 441 prize. First entry is not first prize. Mixed effects of Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Britannica — Greek tragedy, Dionysia careers (https://www.britannica.com/art/Greek-tragedy; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Greek tragedy, Dionysia careers (https://www.britannica.com/art/Greek-tragedy; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Euripides, first competition 455 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving education-access path: a public first festival entry. 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.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/art/Greek-tragedy
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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