# Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play

Date: 408

## The fact

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](/people/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. Do not twin this with the Macedon-late row. 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. The demos watched; he wrote; later Loeb is not 408 type.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/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.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Perseus independently date Orestes as a 408 production. Official: Britannica — Euripides, Orestes 408 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Euripides, Orestes (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0116; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Euripides, Orestes (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0116; Perseus Digital Library).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Euripides, Orestes 408 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

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.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 408 Orestes production. Not established: that the Macedonian stay is this same instrument. Established: a sourced public record of Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play under -0408-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Orestes is produced in 408 BCE as a late civic-crisis play under -0408-01-01.

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Do not twin this with the Macedon-late row. 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0116
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-orestes-408