Modern catalogues record that Byzantine scholia and selection filtered which Aeschylus schoolboys met
Dated 1 June 1950: Modern catalogues record that Byzantine scholia and selection filtered which Aeschylus schoolboys met. In the causal graph this event weakens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — a worsening welfare path.
Read the full account
Laurenziana and handbook accounts describe a Byzantine triad (Persians, Seven, Agamemnon in some lists) as the school filter that left other plays more vulnerable.
Context
School canons preserve and they starve. Loss of the majority is already a row.
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 scholion is not a fifth-century lesson plan.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Aeschylus
PersonDirect 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.
- FactModern catalogues record that Byzantine scholia and selection filtered which Aeschylus schoolboys met
- weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 June 1950 · verified
A scholion is not a fifth-century lesson plan.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana — FlorenceBiblioteca Medicea Laurenziana · High credibility · verified
- 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.
- ActorAeschylus
- contributed toFactModern catalogues record that Byzantine scholia and selection filtered which Aeschylus schoolboys met
- weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Modern catalogues record that Byzantine scholia and selection filtered which Aeschylus schoolboys met. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-scholia-byzantine-filter
https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-scholia-byzantine-filter
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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