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Printed Tristia make a police-and-snitch world of Augustan letters public

Dated 1 June 1915: Printed Tristia make a police-and-snitch world of Augustan letters public. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

Sources: [1][2]

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Loeb Tristia prints poems about friends who did not write, names that cannot be named, and a prince who reads.

Context

An emperor who can relegate a poet for a poem and an error is a data-and-speech power. Print made that power a school text.

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 poem about not naming names is still a record.

Who was responsible

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

  • Ovid

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · 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.

    1. FactPrinted Tristia make a police-and-snitch world of Augustan letters public
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 June 1915 · verified

    A poem about not naming names is still a record.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Cambridge Companion to OvidCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Loeb Classical Library — Marcus, Dio, FrontoHarvard University Press · 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.

  1. ActorOvid
  2. contributed toFactPrinted Tristia make a police-and-snitch world of Augustan letters public
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Printed Tristia make a police-and-snitch world of Augustan letters public. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ov-personal-data-tristia

https://factrail.ai/facts/ov-personal-data-tristia

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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