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Loeb Libation Bearers prints a revenge-instruction that a blood debt must be paid in blood

Smyth’s Loeb Choephoroi gives English readers Orestes’ matricide as commanded revenge, the middle play before the court. In the causal graph this event weakens Judicial independence erosion (court capture), a driver that strengthens Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score — an improving welfare path.

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Smyth’s Loeb Choephoroi gives English readers Orestes’ matricide as commanded revenge, the middle play before the court.

Context

A trilogy can move from feud to court. Storing only the court would sanitize.

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.

Why it matters

A printed matricide is not a holding of the Areopagus.

Who was responsible

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

  • Aeschylus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Transmitted plays under his name plus later editors, actors, or states. Complex, not an autograph of 458.

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 — OresteiaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Perseus — Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Smyth)Perseus Digital Library / Tufts · 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.

  1. ActorAeschylus
  2. contributed toFactLoeb Libation Bearers prints a revenge-instruction that a blood debt must be paid in blood
  3. weakensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
  4. strengthensIndicatorRule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

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Factrail. (2026). Loeb Libation Bearers prints a revenge-instruction that a blood debt must be paid in blood. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-justice-blood-price-as-printed

https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-justice-blood-price-as-printed

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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