Perseus publishes a public digital Metamorphoses
The Perseus Digital Library placed a public digital Ovid in the late-20th-century opening of its Latin corpus. 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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The Perseus Digital Library placed a public digital Ovid in the late-20th-century opening of its Latin corpus. Ovid did not write SGML.
Context
Free digital Latin is a teaching path. It can also spread unnoted rape narratives. Split ethics onto other rows.
Ovid 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 digital page is not a 1471 folio.
A digital page is not a 1471 folio.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Ovid
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.16 · verified
Dated act under Ovid as transmitted author or later named subject. Printers, censors, and museums share labour.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactPerseus publishes a public digital Metamorphoses
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1987 · verified
A digital page is not a 1471 folio.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.3 × 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 0.1 (weight 0.3 × 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 0.09 (weight 0.3 × 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.PHI Latin Texts — Ovid corpusPackard Humanities Institute · High credibility · verified
- 2.Ovid, Metamorphoses — PerseusPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorOvid
- contributed toFactPerseus publishes a public digital Metamorphoses
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Perseus publishes a public digital Metamorphoses. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ov-perseus-digital
https://factrail.ai/facts/ov-perseus-digital
Accessed 15 October 2026.
By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed
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