Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play
In 408 BCE Orestes was produced at Athens, a late play of civic faction and a botched assembly. The dated production is not Helen of 412 and not the later Macedonian stay. In the causal graph this event strengthens Political Polarization, a driver that weakens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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In 408 BCE Orestes was produced at Athens, a late play of civic faction and a botched assembly. The dated production is not Helen of 412 and not the later Macedonian stay. Euripides’s documented role is: He produced Orestes in 408, a play of faction, hostage-taking, and failed debate. The demos watched; he wrote; later Loeb is not 408 type. A 408 Athenian play is not a court stay. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Euripides's documented role is: He produced Orestes in 408, a play of faction, hostage-taking, and failed debate.
Context
A war-weary city, unnamed actors, and a male-citizen audience already sit in the file. A play is not unique authorship of the 411 oligarchy. Later Loeb is access. Named others on the file: Unnamed actors, the demos as audience, and later editors share the production. The public setting is the file around -0408-01-01. The instrument stays Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play. The setting of Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play is the public file around -0408-01-01. Driver political-polarization is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Why it matters
Worsening polarisation path: a public play of civic stasis. Complex shared theatre. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated late tragedy put public stasis and failed persuasion into the Dionysia, distinct from earlier Medea or Helen. 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 worsening.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Euripides
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.36 · verified
He produced Orestes in 408, a play of faction, hostage-taking, and failed debate. The demos watched; he wrote; later Loeb is not 408 type.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactOrestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play
- strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
- weakensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 408 · verified
A dated late tragedy put public stasis and failed persuasion into the Dionysia, distinct from earlier Medea or Helen.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 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.
- 1.Perseus — Euripides, OrestesPerseus Digital Library · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCEEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica and Perseus independently date Orestes as a 408 production. Official: Britannica — Euripides, Orestes 408 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Euripides, Orestes (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0116 (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, Orestes 408 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Euripides, Orestes (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0116 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library).
Established: 408 Orestes production. Established: a sourced public record of Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play under -0408-01-01.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. A 408 Athenian play is not a court stay. Mixed effects of Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play are separate paths.
Shared responsibility is part of Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play. Naming Euripides does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0408-01-01 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.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorEuripides
- contributed toFactOrestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play
- strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
- weakensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-orestes-408
https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-orestes-408
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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