# Heraclitus

- Id: `heraclitus`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/heraclitus/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `445457fb8f5fa66a3218f025edc377b01063e2500b08569997509e6dfb2666ff`

## 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.

## Overview

Heraclitus probably died in the early fifth century BCE. His book is lost and its wording survives through later carriers.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "c. 535–c. 475 BCE",
    "era": "Classical Antiquity",
    "distance": "about 2,500 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "greek-schools",
    "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
    "detail": "Presocratic precursor",
    "labels": [
        "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "Presocratic precursor"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "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

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 145,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc",
        "lat"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "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/"
    }
]
```