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Perseus publishes a stable digital Suetonius Caligula for public reuse

By the mid-1990s Perseus at Tufts was serving Suetonius’s Caligula as public HTML. 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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By the mid-1990s Perseus at Tufts was serving Suetonius’s Caligula as public HTML. It is not a new manuscript.

Context

Digital classics let readers search ‘Incitatus’ without a rare Loeb. Editorial freeze remains.

Caligula 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.

  • Caligula

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Princeps as named in later editions and objects. Historians, museums, and later states publish 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.Suetonius, Caligula — PerseusPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Suetonius, Loeb vol. 1 (Rolfe) scanInternet Archive / Loeb Classical Library · High credibility · verified

Causal path

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

  1. ActorCaligula
  2. contributed toFactPerseus publishes a stable digital Suetonius Caligula for public reuse
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Perseus publishes a stable digital Suetonius Caligula for public reuse. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-perseus-suetonius

https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-perseus-suetonius

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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