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Euripides

Euripides

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Athenian tragedian whose Medea, Hippolytus, Trojan Women, and Bacchae reach the public through Loeb, Perseus, and Gutenberg. Documented harms: infanticide-plot, captive-women play, festival-gate. He did not typeset 1912.

Festival tragedy as later Loeb Englishcaptive-and-revenge plots as printed theatre not as court filesschool canon as an elite credential gate

Impact

Not rated yet: the verified records linked to this person, without a numeric impact.

Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a marble humanist and not a unique author of 406 BCE. The heaviest documented costs in public English are printed killing-plots, captive-women theatre, and a festival-gate. The offsets are Loeb/Perseus access and Trojan Women as lament-speech. He did not file 1912. Editors did that work. Confidence is high on those pages, medium on unique civic coefficients. Later Loeb pages remain the dated record. Confidence is high on the kept public pages, medium on contested authorship, low on unique modern indicator coefficients.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 3 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (0405–0455).

Causal path

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  1. PersonEuripides
  2. FactEuripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonEuripides
  2. FactEuripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonEuripides
  2. FactAlcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play
  3. DriverSocial Cohesion

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 1 January 455 · Digital Learning Access

    Euripides first competes at the Dionysia in 455 BCE

  2. 1 January 441 · Digital Learning Access

    Euripides wins a first prize at the Dionysia in 441 BCE

  3. 1 January 438 · Social Cohesion

    Alcestis is produced in 438 BCE as a surviving prosatyric play

  4. 1 June 431 · Labour-Market Tightness

    The plays print enslaved persons as instruments of plots

  5. 1 March 431 · Income Inequality

    The Dionysia is a male-citizen competition gate for the plays

  6. 31 December 430 · Humanitarian Access

    Medea is produced as a completed public play of a parent killing children

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

16 of 16 linked facts verified, drawing on 9 distinct sources (0405–0455).

Sources include Encyclopaedia Britannica, Harvard University Press, Didaskalia, Perseus Digital Library / Tufts, Project Gutenberg.

Sources (showing 8 of 9)

  1. 1.Britannica — Euripides, Alcestis 438 BCEEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.Loeb — EuripidesHarvard University Press
  3. 3.Didaskalia — ancient theatre journalDidaskalia
  4. 4.Perseus — Euripides, MedeaPerseus Digital Library / Tufts
  5. 5.Perseus — Euripides, HippolytusPerseus Digital Library / Tufts
  6. 6.Perseus — Euripides, Trojan WomenPerseus Digital Library / Tufts
  7. 7.Euripides plays — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg
  8. 8.Britannica — EuripidesEncyclopaedia Britannica

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 9

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Euripides is a printed child-killing play and a captive-women play, not a marble humanist. Perseus Medea at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0108 (opens in a new tab) and Trojan Women at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0124 (opens in a new tab) are public English. Bacchae at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0092 (opens in a new tab) and Hippolytus at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0106 (opens in a new tab) are further instruments. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab) marks a thin vita. Cambridge Companion at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-euripides/ (opens in a new tab) treats politics of the plays. UNESCO Acropolis at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/404/ (opens in a new tab) is a later landscape. The offsets are also URLs. Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35451 (opens in a new tab) is cheap English. Vatican Museums at https://m.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en.html (opens in a new tab) present a face-type. Stanford ancient tragedy at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tragedy-ancient/ (opens in a new tab) is independent. What the score must not say: that he killed a child; that 415 is a unique casualty table; that 1912 is 431; that every play is a Fact. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on the printed plays, medium on unique festival coefficients, low on the Macedon anecdote. Related people are Aeschylus, Sophocles, Socrates as later pairing. 1912 is a Loeb. 1987 is Perseus and UNESCO. The useful question is which later public pages still move captive-theatre and school-gate under his name. Keep Medea Trojan Women Bacchae and Loeb on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation. Hostile vita slander is not upgraded. Off-family indicator padding is refused. Confidence is high on named public pages, medium on unique coefficients, low on anecdote. On the kept graph: -0431-01-01 (cost, driver humanitarian-access): Medea is produced as a completed public play of a parent killing children — official Perseus — Euripides, Medea (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0108 (opens in a new tab)); independent Britannica — Euripides (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab)). -0415-01-01 (cost, driver forced-displacement-scale): Trojan Women is produced as a completed public play of enslaved survivors after a sack — official Perseus — Euripides, Trojan Women (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0124 (opens in a new tab)); independent Cambridge Companion to Euripides (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-euripides/ (opens in a new tab)). -0405-01-01 (cost, driver political-polarization): Bacchae is produced as a completed public play of a mother tearing a son — official Perseus — Euripides, Bacchae (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0092 (opens in a new tab)); independent Britannica — Euripides (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab)). -0431-03-01 (cost, driver income-inequality): The Dionysia is a male-citizen competition gate for the plays — official Didaskalia — later public pages on ancient performance (https://www.didaskalia.net/ (opens in a new tab)); independent Met Heilbrunn — Greek theatre (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/thtr/hd_thtr.htm (opens in a new tab)). -0431-06-01 (cost, driver labour-market-tightness): The plays print enslaved persons as instruments of plots — official Loeb — Euripides (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995666 (opens in a new tab)); independent Perseus — Euripides, Medea (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0108 (opens in a new tab)). -0408-01-01 (cost, driver democratic-resilience): A late stay at the Macedonian court is received in encyclopedia lives — official Britannica — Euripides (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euripides (opens in a new tab)); independent Cambridge Companion to Euripides (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-euripides/ (opens in a new tab)). -0412-01-01 (cost, driver personal-data-protection): Helen is produced as a completed public play of a phantom wife and war-error — official Euripides plays — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35451 (opens in a new tab)); independent Cambridge Companion to Euripides (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-euripides/ (opens in a new tab)). A Driver is attached only where a mechanism can be named. The public score, when later computed, is formula-derived only. Sources named on each Fact page are the causal evidence; Wikipedia is not. Allegations stay allegations. Contested ancient evidence stays contested.

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