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Ben Edwin Perry publishes Aesopica with a numbered index of fables

Perry’s 1952 Aesopica numbered the Greek and Latin fable stock. 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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Perry’s 1952 Aesopica numbered the Greek and Latin fable stock. Scholars still cite Perry numbers. Aesop did not assign those numbers.

Context

A scholarly index reduces chaos and can freeze a canon. It does not prove a single author wrote every numbered tale.

Aesop 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.

Who was responsible

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

  • Aesop

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.22 · verified

    Named fable tradition later attached to Aesop. Printers, editors, and schools carry the instrument.

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.Perry, Aesopica (scan of the 1952 scholarly corpus)Internet Archive / University of Illinois Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Oxford Classical Dictionary — Aesop / Aesopic fableOxford University Press · High credibility · verified

Causal path

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

  1. ActorAesop
  2. contributed toFactBen Edwin Perry publishes Aesopica with a numbered index of fables
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Ben Edwin Perry publishes Aesopica with a numbered index of fables. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-perry-index-1952

https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-perry-index-1952

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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