# Modern Loeb lives still print the later vita that Aeschylus fought at Marathon

Date: 1922

## The fact

Smyth’s introductory life, following the ancient vita tradition, still tells readers that [Aeschylus](/people/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.

## 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 upgrade a vita to a medal. Do not write that the life is nothing because it is late.

Do not upgrade a vita to a medal. Do not write that the life is nothing because it is late.

## 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 [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## 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-vita-marathon-as-later-life