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Herbert Weir Smyth’s Loeb Aeschylus volume I puts a facing-page English on a public library shelf

In 1922 the Loeb Classical Library issued Smyth’s first Aeschylus volume, Greek with English, covering plays in the received seven. It is not a fifth-century autograph and not the 2008 Sommerstein replacement. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1922 the Loeb Classical Library issued Smyth’s first Aeschylus volume, Greek with English, covering plays in the received seven. It is not a fifth-century autograph and not the 2008 Sommerstein replacement.

Context

Loebs freeze one Greek text and one English. They also put tragedy into municipal libraries. Authorship of Prometheus Bound remains disputed in the same series later.

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

Knowledge-access path. High confidence on 1922.

A facing page is not a festival. 1981 National Theatre is another row.

Who was responsible

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

  • Aeschylus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    The plays are the transmitted Aeschylean corpus. The 1922 Loeb is Smyth’s and the Loeb series’.

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.Aeschylus, Loeb / Smyth scan (Internet Archive)Internet Archive / Loeb tradition · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Harvard University Press — Aeschylus Loeb volumesHarvard University Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Harvard’s Loeb listing and Internet Archive scans independently carry the Smyth volumes.

Established: Smyth’s Loeb Aeschylus I appeared in 1922. Not established: that it settled the text of Agamemnon or school outcomes that year.

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.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAeschylus
  2. contributed toFactHerbert Weir Smyth’s Loeb Aeschylus volume I puts a facing-page English on a public library shelf
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Herbert Weir Smyth’s Loeb Aeschylus volume I puts a facing-page English on a public library shelf. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-loeb-smyth-1922

https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-loeb-smyth-1922

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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