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Pericles builds an Odeon beside the Theatre of Dionysus as a music hall

Pericles is credited with an Odeon on the south slope of the Acropolis for musical contests. The dated music hall is not the Parthenon and not the Propylaea. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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Pericles is credited with an Odeon on the south slope of the Acropolis for musical contests. The dated music hall is not the Parthenon and not the Propylaea. Pericles’s documented role is: Later sources credit him with an Odeon used for music contests and rehearsals. Unnamed carpenters built; he sponsored; unique plan is thin. A music hall is not Athena’s temple. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

Dionysia contests, unnamed carpenters, and a later story of a Persian-tent roof already sit in the file. A hall is not unique authorship of music. Later Roman rebuilds are not 443. Named others on the file: Unnamed carpenters, festival musicians, and later Pausanias as carrier share the hall. The public setting is the file around -0443-06-01. The instrument stays Pericles builds an Odeon beside the Theatre of Dionysus as a music hall. The setting of Pericles builds an Odeon beside the Theatre of Dionysus as a music hall is the public file around -0443-06-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Pericles builds an Odeon beside the Theatre of Dionysus as a music hall. Naming Pericles does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0443-06-01 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.

Why it matters

Medium confidence on unique fabric. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated public music hall put a teaching-and-festival interior beside the theatre. 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.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pericles

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Later sources credit him with an Odeon used for music contests and rehearsals. Unnamed carpenters built; he sponsored; unique plan is thin.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Odeum of PericlesEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — PericlesEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica independently identifies an Odeon of Pericles as a public music building distinct from the Parthenon. Official: Britannica — Pericles, Odeon (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Britannica — Odeum of Pericles (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Odeum-of-Pericles (opens in a new tab); 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 — Pericles, Odeon (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Odeum of Pericles (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Odeum-of-Pericles (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a received Periclean Odeon heading. Not established: a unique surviving roof. Established: a sourced public record of Pericles builds an Odeon beside the Theatre of Dionysus as a music hall under -0443-06-01.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. A music hall is not Athena’s temple. Mixed effects of Pericles builds an Odeon beside the Theatre of Dionysus as a music hall are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPericles
  2. contributed toFactPericles builds an Odeon beside the Theatre of Dionysus as a music hall
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Pericles builds an Odeon beside the Theatre of Dionysus as a music hall. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/per-odeon-443

https://factrail.ai/facts/per-odeon-443

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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