It was first produced posthumously at the Dionysia in Athens, most likely in 405 BCE, in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis.
[5] According to this summary, during the time he went mad, Alcmaeon had a son, Amphilochus, and a daughter, Tisiphone, by Manto.
[8] British classics scholar Edith Hall finds a possible thematic link between the three plays in the trilogy that included Alcmaeon in Corinth.
According to Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp, only four fragments of more than a few words have been definitively assigned to Alcmaeon in Corinth.
[7] Alcmaeon in Corinth was written towards the end of the Peloponnesian War, which Athens was on the verge of losing.
[7] On the other hand Amphilochus, the Argive founder of Athens' Peloponnesian ally Argos, is shown to have been falsely appropriated by Corinth.
[7] The supposed discovery of a manuscript of the play features as a plot device in the episode "The Lions of Nemea" of the British television series Lewis.