Skip to content
eventVerified

Perseus publishes a stable digital Diogenes Laertius Book 10 for public reuse

By the mid-1990s the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts was serving a public HTML Diogenes Laertius, including Book 10, as a stable teaching URL. 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.

Sources: [1][2]

Read the full account

By the mid-1990s the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts was serving a public HTML Diogenes Laertius, including Book 10, as a stable teaching URL. It is not a new Greek witness.

Context

Digital classics shifted access from rare Loebs to a URL. Canonical URLs also freeze editorial choices.

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 stable public Greek-English URL is a digital-learning access path.

A stable public Greek-English URL is a digital-learning access path.

Who was responsible

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

  • Epicurus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · 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.Diogenes Laertius, Lives 10 — PerseusPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · 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 toFactPerseus publishes a stable digital Diogenes Laertius Book 10 for public reuse
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Perseus publishes a stable digital Diogenes Laertius Book 10 for public reuse. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-perseus-digital-dl

https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-perseus-digital-dl

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

Dispute this factNamed here, or represent someone who is? Request a right of reply.