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Heberdey and Kalinka publish large stretches of Diogenes of Oenoanda’s wall

Dated 1 January 1895: Heberdey and Kalinka publish large stretches of Diogenes of Oenoanda’s wall. 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 the 1890s Austrian surveyors published blocks of the huge second-century inscription at Oenoanda that teaches Garden doctrine in public stone. Epicurus did not commission the wall.

Context

A stoa of philosophy in a Lycian city is a rare attempt to make school teaching outdoor and civic, against lathe biosas. Later Smith editions refine the text.

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 published civic inscription is an access path. It is not the founder’s own masonry.

It is not the founder’s own masonry.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Epicurus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · 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.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism (Warren ed., 2009)Cambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — EpicurusStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified

Causal path

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

  1. ActorEpicurus
  2. contributed toFactHeberdey and Kalinka publish large stretches of Diogenes of Oenoanda’s wall
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Heberdey and Kalinka publish large stretches of Diogenes of Oenoanda’s wall. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-oenoanda-inscription

https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-oenoanda-inscription

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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