Loeb Classical Library publishes Diogenes Laertius Book 10 in English and Greek
In 1925 the Loeb Classical Library issued Hicks’s Diogenes Laertius volume containing Book 10: vita, will, three letters, and Principal Doctrines. 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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In 1925 the Loeb Classical Library issued Hicks’s Diogenes Laertius volume containing Book 10: vita, will, three letters, and Principal Doctrines. The book is a completed facing-page teaching instrument. It is not an autograph and not a clinic.
Context
English-speaking students could now read the core corpus without a private manuscript hunt. Print also froze Loeb’s textual choices. Later digital Perseus reused that public domain layer.
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.
Why it matters
A facing-page Loeb is a knowledge-access gain. It does not settle disputed letters.
It does not settle disputed letters.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Epicurus
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · 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.
- FactLoeb Classical Library publishes Diogenes Laertius Book 10 in English and Greek
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 1925 · verified
A facing-page Loeb is a knowledge-access gain. It does not settle disputed letters.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.19 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — EpicurusStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 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.
- ActorEpicurus
- contributed toFactLoeb Classical Library publishes Diogenes Laertius Book 10 in English and Greek
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Loeb Classical Library publishes Diogenes Laertius Book 10 in English and Greek. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-hicks-loeb-1925
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Accessed 15 October 2026.
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