Suppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead
Euripides’ Suppliant Women shows Theseus securing burial for the Seven against Thebes. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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Euripides’ Suppliant Women shows Theseus securing burial for the Seven against Thebes. The dated civic play is not Trojan Women and not Medea. Euripides’s documented role is: He produced the Suppliants, a play of Theseus forcing burial of the Argive dead. The demos watched a civic self-image; later Loeb is access; unique year is conventional. A burial-rights play is not a captive-women play. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Euripides's documented role is: He produced the Suppliants, a play of Theseus forcing burial of the Argive dead.
Context
A wartime audience, unnamed actors, and a male-citizen festival already sit in the file. A Theseus-play is not unique authorship of Athenian policy. Later Loeb is access. Named others on the file: Unnamed actors, the demos as self-pictured city, and later editors share the production. The public setting is the file around -0423-01-01. The instrument stays Suppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead. The setting of Suppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead is the public file around -0423-01-01. Driver democratic-resilience 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. Mixed effects of Suppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead are separate paths.
Why it matters
Medium confidence on unique year. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated civic play put public burial-rights and an Athenian self-image into the festival file, distinct from Trojan Women as captive-lament. 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
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
He produced the Suppliants, a play of Theseus forcing burial of the Argive dead. The demos watched a civic self-image; later Loeb is access; unique year is conventional.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactSuppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 423 · verified
A dated civic play put public burial-rights and an Athenian self-image into the festival file, distinct from Trojan Women as captive-lament.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.21 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.7)
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 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Perseus — Euripides, SuppliantsPerseus Digital Library · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCEEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica and Perseus independently identify the Suppliants as a distinct civic Euripides play. Official: Britannica — Euripides, Suppliant Women (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Euripides, Suppliants (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0122 (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, Suppliant Women (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Euripides, Suppliants (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0122 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library).
Established: Suppliant Women as a Euripidean civic play. Not established: that Trojan Women is this same plot. Established: a sourced public record of Suppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead under -0423-01-01.
Shared responsibility is part of Suppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead. Naming Euripides does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0423-01-01 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.
- ActorEuripides
- contributed toFactSuppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Suppliant Women presents Athens as burier of the Seven’s dead. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-suppliants-423
https://factrail.ai/facts/eur-suppliants-423
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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