{
    "schema": "prokopton42-public-thinker-v1",
    "id": "zeno",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/zeno/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Zeno of Citium",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "Founder of the Stoa reconstructed from 251 source-critical carrier pages, with no lost work treated as surviving autobiography.",
    "body": "Zeno died around 262 BCE; the date and almost all surviving evidence are approximate or posthumous.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "c. 334–c. 262 BCE",
        "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
        "distance": "about 2,287 years ago",
        "age_at_death": null
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "detail": "Founder of Stoicism",
        "labels": [
            "Stoicism",
            "Founder of Stoicism"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": -260,
        "display": "260 BCE",
        "reason": "Zeno died around 262 BCE; the date and almost all surviving evidence are approximate or posthumous."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 2,
        "passages": 251,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr",
            "grc"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 2
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Citium",
            "period": "c. 334 BCE",
            "description": "Birthplace in Cyprus.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Athens",
            "period": "c. 312-262 BCE",
            "description": "Philosophical formation and foundation of the Stoa.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Piraeus",
            "period": "traditional arrival",
            "description": "Diogenes Laertius' later biography connects Zeno's arrival with a shipwreck and the Athenian port.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/"
        }
    ],
    "content_checksum": "2aaecc07183b747fe4ee926a756c6ee6b2b1e022a2218f171356fdb99db57743"
}