# Standard modern lives record that tragic production depended on wealthy choregoi

Date: 1922

## The fact

Smyth’s life and later standard accounts record that putting on an Aeschylean tetralogy required a rich choregos to pay chorus and display. The dated public instrument is that modern statement of a liturgy of wealth. He is the poet, not the only payer.

## Context

Civic theatre funded by the rich is a cohesion machine and an inequality display. Stored as inequality path of medium confidence. The plays remain on access rows.

[Aeschylus](/people/aeschylus) 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.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, festival, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Aeschylus, Loeb / Smyth scan (Internet Archive) (https://archive.org/details/aeschyluswithan00smytgoog; Internet Archive / Loeb tradition).

## Significance

A liturgy is not a ticket office of 1981.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Aeschylus: https://factrail.ai/people/aeschylus

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2000/2000.10.02/
- https://archive.org/details/aeschyluswithan00smytgoog

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-choragic-wealth-as-modern-account