# Euripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE

Date: 441

## The fact

In 441 BCE Euripides won a first prize at the City Dionysia. The dated victory is not Medea’s 431 production (which did not take first) and not the later Macedonian stay. [Euripides](/people/euripides)’s documented role is: Didaskaliai record a first prize in 441. The demos voted; he produced; the plays of that year are mostly lost. Do not twin this with Medea, which lost. A 441 prize is not a 431 production. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Euripides's documented role is: Didaskaliai record a first prize in 441. The demos voted; he produced; the plays of that year are mostly lost.

## Context

A judging demos, unnamed actors, and lost plays of that year already sit in the file. A prize is not unique authorship of every later school-canon. Later Loeb is not 441 type. Named others on the file: Unnamed judges and choregoi, actors, and later didaskaliai compilers share the victory. The public setting is the file around -0441-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Euripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE. The setting of Euripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE is the public file around -0441-01-01. 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.

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

## Evidence and sources

Britannica independently dates a 441 first prize as distinct from later more famous losing plays. Official: Britannica — Euripides, first prize 441 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Britannica — Dionysia prizes as festival heritage (https://www.britannica.com/art/satyr-play; 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 prize 441 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Dionysia prizes as festival heritage (https://www.britannica.com/art/satyr-play; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Euripides, first prize 441 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving education-access path: a public festival first prize. Complex shared judging. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated festival victory put a public teaching-and-honour heading into the Dionysia file, distinct from later famous plays that did not win. 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.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with Medea, which lost. A 441 prize is not a 431 production. Mixed effects of Euripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 441 first prize. Not established: that Medea is this winning tetralogy. Established: a sourced public record of Euripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE under -0441-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Euripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE under -0441-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Euripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE. Naming Euripides does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0441-01-01 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.

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

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

## 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/satyr-play
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-first-prize-441