# Modern Loeb lives state that the ancient vita is late and thin

Date: 1912

## The fact

Loeb introductions and Britannica warn that later vitae, not a household register, are the biography. High confidence on the gap. Pushkin marble is a later portrait type, not a photograph from life.

## Context

Do not invent a 496 BCE birth Fact as a civil file.

[Sophocles](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, festival, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Harvard / Loeb — Sophocles I (Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus) (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995574; [Harvard University](/organizations/harvard-university) Press).

## Significance

Do write the gap.

Do write the gap.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is personal-data-protection. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Sophocles: https://factrail.ai/people/sophocles

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophocles
- https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995574

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/so-personal-vita-gap