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    "id": "plato",
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    "language": "en",
    "title": "Plato",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "A student of Socrates and founder of the Academy, Plato turned philosophy’s largest questions into living dialogues.",
    "body": "Plato died around 348 or 347 BCE; later Platonism and modern scholarship are unavailable by default.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "c. 428–348 BCE",
        "era": "Classical Antiquity",
        "distance": "about 2,373 years ago",
        "age_at_death": null
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        "year": -347,
        "display": "347 BCE",
        "reason": "Plato died around 348 or 347 BCE; later Platonism and modern scholarship are unavailable by default."
    },
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        "works": 26,
        "passages": 1565,
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            "grc"
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        "typed_relationships": 0
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    "places": [
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            "name": "Athens",
            "period": "c. 428-348 BCE",
            "description": "Birthplace, Socratic circle and the Academy.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Megara",
            "period": "after 399 BCE",
            "description": "Traditional refuge with Euclides after Socrates' death.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Syracuse",
            "period": "c. 387, 367 and 361 BCE",
            "description": "Three Sicilian journeys are traditional; details depend partly on disputed letters.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Southern Italy",
            "period": "traditional first journey",
            "description": "Ancient biography places Plato among Pythagorean circles before Sicily.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/plato/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Cyrene",
            "period": "traditional travels",
            "description": "A later travel tradition associates Plato with the mathematician Theodorus at Cyrene.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/plato/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Egypt",
            "period": "traditional travels",
            "description": "The Egyptian journey is a persistent but uncertain ancient biographical tradition.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/plato/"
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