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Denys Page’s Oxford Classical Text of Aeschylus becomes a standard Greek school text

In 1972 Oxford issued Page’s OCT Aeschylus, a widely used Greek text. 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 1972 Oxford issued Page’s OCT Aeschylus, a widely used Greek text. It is not a performance.

Context

OCT pages decide what students think the words are. Apparatus is the honest part many skip.

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 Clarendon text is not Epidaurus. Split festivals.

A Clarendon text is not Epidaurus. Split festivals.

Who was responsible

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

  • Aeschylus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · 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.Oxford Classical Texts: Aeschyli Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoedias, ed. D. L. Page (1972)Oxford University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Oxford Classical Texts seriesOxford University Press · 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 toFactDenys Page’s Oxford Classical Text of Aeschylus becomes a standard Greek school text
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Denys Page’s Oxford Classical Text of Aeschylus becomes a standard Greek school text. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-page-oct-1972

https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-page-oct-1972

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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