Modern Epidaurus nights imply fuel, light, and crowd infrastructure of a tragic venue
A 1988 lighting plot is not a 5th-century lamp series. In the causal graph this event weakens Energy Security, a driver that strengthens Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population) — an improving welfare path.
Read the full account
Low-confidence modest path: keeping plays live costs fuel and grid. He did not design a 1988 lighting plot.
Context
Sophocles is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
A 1988 lighting plot is not a 5th-century lamp series.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Sophocles
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.12 · verified
Transmitted plays under his name plus later editors, actors, or states. Complex, not an autograph of 441.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactModern Epidaurus nights imply fuel, light, and crowd infrastructure of a tragic venue
- weakensDriverEnergy Security
- strengthensIndicators (4)Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)
impact weight 0.2 · Effect from 1 September 1988 · verified
A 1988 lighting plot is not a 5th-century lamp series.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.62)
Observed
10.4% · 10.2 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 11.1% to 10.4%.
Above normal = worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.6)
Observed
7.97% of population aged 16 years or over · 5.2 above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal8 readings, 2018–2025: rose from 7.77% of population aged 16 years or over to 7.97% of population aged 16 years or over.
Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.5)
Observed
91.6% of population · 8.4 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normal4 readings, 2020–2023: rose from 90.4% of population to 91.6% of population.
Above normal = better
All indicators on this path (4)
- Better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.48)
Observed
80 Years · 2.3 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normal6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 79.5 Years to 80 Years.
Above normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Athens-Epidaurus FestivalHellenic Festival S.A. · High credibility · verified
- 2.UNESCO — Sanctuary of Asklepios at EpidaurusUNESCO World Heritage Centre · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorSophocles
- contributed toFactModern Epidaurus nights imply fuel, light, and crowd infrastructure of a tragic venue
- weakensDriverEnergy Security
- strengthensIndicatorPoverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Modern Epidaurus nights imply fuel, light, and crowd infrastructure of a tragic venue. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/so-energy-festival-night
https://factrail.ai/facts/so-energy-festival-night
Accessed 16 October 2026.
By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed
Dispute this factNamed here, or represent someone who is? Request a right of reply.