Loeb Antigone prints a public argument that some unwritten things outrank a civic decree
Antigone’s speech in Loeb/Perseus English is a completed public heading of conscience against a burial-ban. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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Antigone’s speech in Loeb/Perseus English is a completed public heading of conscience against a burial-ban.
Context
A tragedy is not a constitution. Medium confidence on later civic uses.
Sophocles 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
Printed unwritten-law speech is not the UDHR.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Sophocles
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
Transmitted plays under his name plus later editors, actors, or states. Complex, not an autograph of 441.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLoeb Antigone prints a public argument that some unwritten things outrank a civic decree
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 20 June 1912 · verified
Printed unwritten-law speech is not the UDHR.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.32 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Sophocles, The Oedipus Trilogy (F. Storr, Loeb 1912 translation)Project Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
- 2.Perseus — Sophocles, AntigonePerseus 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.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorSophocles
- contributed toFactLoeb Antigone prints a public argument that some unwritten things outrank a civic decree
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Loeb Antigone prints a public argument that some unwritten things outrank a civic decree. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/so-antigone-conscience-heading
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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