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Loeb Diogenes Laertius prints Epicurus’ will founding monthly founder-rites

In 1925 R. D. Hicks’s Loeb Diogenes Laertius volume II printed Book 10, including the will that endows meals on the twentieth and images of the founder. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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In 1925 R. D. Hicks’s Loeb Diogenes Laertius volume II printed Book 10, including the will that endows meals on the twentieth and images of the founder. The will as transmitted organises a memorial cult around a named teacher.

Context

Hellenistic schools often mixed teaching with household cult. Printing the will makes that mix public in English. A memorial meal is not a modern party machine, but it is a founder-centred ritual economy later critics called a cult.

Epicurus 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.

  • Epicurus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    Garden founder as named in later editions and finds. Printers, excavators, and editors 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.

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  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — EpicurusStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Diogenes Laertius, Lives, Loeb / Hicks vol. 2Internet Archive / Loeb Classical Library scan · High credibility · verified

Causal path

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

  1. ActorEpicurus
  2. contributed toFactLoeb Diogenes Laertius prints Epicurus’ will founding monthly founder-rites
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Loeb Diogenes Laertius prints Epicurus’ will founding monthly founder-rites. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-dl-will-monthly-cult

https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-dl-will-monthly-cult

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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