Modern Loeb lives still print the later vita that Aeschylus fought at Marathon
Smyth’s introductory life, following the ancient vita tradition, still tells readers that Aeschylus fought at Marathon. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
Read the full account
Smyth’s introductory life, following the ancient vita tradition, still tells readers that Aeschylus fought at Marathon. Confidence stays low because the biography is late. Stored as a modest cohesion myth of poet-as-citizen, not as a verified service record.
Context
A later life can be false and still shape how schools teach war and poetry together. The low-confidence improving path is that civic-poet image as printed in 1922, with the tortoise-death legend on a worsening 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.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Aeschylus
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.16 · 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 Loeb lives still print the later vita that Aeschylus fought at Marathon
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.2 · Effect from 1 September 1922 · verified
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — AeschylusEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Aeschylus, Loeb / Smyth scan (Internet Archive)Internet Archive / Loeb tradition · 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.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAeschylus
- contributed toFactModern Loeb lives still print the later vita that Aeschylus fought at Marathon
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Modern Loeb lives still print the later vita that Aeschylus fought at Marathon. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-vita-marathon-as-later-life
https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-vita-marathon-as-later-life
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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