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    "id": "diogenes",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/diogenes/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Diogenes of Sinope",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "A Cynic philosopher from Sinope, Diogenes challenged convention through a public, poor, and fiercely free life.",
    "body": "Conservative traditional date for Diogenes' death; the chronology remains approximate.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "c. 412–323 BCE",
        "era": "Classical Antiquity",
        "distance": "about 2,348 years ago",
        "age_at_death": null
    },
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        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "detail": "Cynicism",
        "labels": [
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            "Cynicism"
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        "year": -323,
        "display": "323 BCE",
        "reason": "Conservative traditional date for Diogenes' death; the chronology remains approximate."
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        "passages": 62,
        "languages": [
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            "grc"
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        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 2
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        {
            "name": "Sinope",
            "period": "early life",
            "description": "Traditional birthplace and setting of the disputed coinage story.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Athens",
            "period": "4th century BCE",
            "description": "Principal setting of the Cynic anecdotal tradition.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Corinth",
            "period": "late life",
            "description": "Traditional place of enslavement, teaching and death.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Olympia",
            "period": "traditional",
            "description": "Visit belongs to later anecdotal testimony.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Aegina",
            "period": "traditional",
            "description": "Later biography places his capture by pirates on a voyage to Aegina.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Crete",
            "period": "traditional",
            "description": "Later biography says he was taken to Crete and sold there.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/"
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