Skip to content
statementVerified

Loeb’s seven complete plays are the public remainder of a larger production

The seven in Loeb/Gutenberg/Perseus are a completed public corpus-remainder. Seven is not the whole art. High confidence on the public seven. 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

The seven in Loeb/Gutenberg/Perseus are a completed public corpus-remainder.

Context

Seven is not the whole art. High confidence on the public seven.

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

A seven-play Loeb is not a 5th-century didascalic complete works.

Who was responsible

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

  • Sophocles

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · 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.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Sophocles tragedies — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Harvard / Loeb — Sophocles I (Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus)Harvard 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. ActorSophocles
  2. contributed toFactLoeb’s seven complete plays are the public remainder of a larger production
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Loeb’s seven complete plays are the public remainder of a larger production. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/so-seven-as-remainder-access

https://factrail.ai/facts/so-seven-as-remainder-access

Accessed 16 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.