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    "schema": "prokopton42-public-thinker-v1",
    "id": "heraclitus",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/heraclitus/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Heraclitus",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "Source-critical Heraclitus grounded in all 145 Diels B units, with original Greek or Latin, complete labeled French and English sidecars, explicit ancient carriers, and safeguards against modern slogans.",
    "body": "Heraclitus probably died in the early fifth century BCE. His book is lost and its wording survives through later carriers.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "c. 535–c. 475 BCE",
        "era": "Classical Antiquity",
        "distance": "about 2,500 years ago",
        "age_at_death": null
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "greek-schools",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "detail": "Presocratic precursor",
        "labels": [
            "Greek and Roman traditions",
            "Presocratic precursor"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": -460,
        "display": "460 BCE",
        "reason": "Heraclitus probably died in the early fifth century BCE. His book is lost and its wording survives through later carriers."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 1,
        "passages": 145,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr",
            "grc",
            "lat"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 0
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Ephesus",
            "period": "fl. c. 500 BCE",
            "description": "The only stable geographic anchor in the ancient biographical tradition.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/"
        }
    ],
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}