# Modern printed lives still repeat the later anecdote of death by tortoise at Gela

Date: 1922

## The fact

Smyth and school lives still tell the eagle-and-tortoise death in Sicily. It is almost certainly legend. Stored as a low-confidence knowledge-harm: a cartoon death crowding out the manuscript fact.

## Context

A joke biography is a transmission cost. The Mediceus row is the corrective. Do not upgrade the tortoise to a coroner.

[Aeschylus](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, festival, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Aeschylus, Loeb / Smyth scan (Internet Archive) (https://archive.org/details/aeschyluswithan00smytgoog; Internet Archive / Loeb tradition).

## Significance

Do not write a 456 ISO death from a Byzantine joke.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Aeschylus: https://factrail.ai/people/aeschylus

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aeschylus-Greek-dramatist
- https://archive.org/details/aeschyluswithan00smytgoog

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-tortoise-death-vita