{
  "title": "Ship of Theseus source timeline",
  "description": "Dated facts behind the Ship of Theseus story, one row per account: Plato's Phaedo and the trial of Socrates (399 BCE), the regency of Demetrius of Phalerum (317–307 BCE), Plutarch's Life of Theseus 23.1 (Plutarch ca. 45–120 CE), Hobbes's De Corpore (1655) and the 2026 revision of the SEP entry Identity Over Time, plus the computed gap between Plutarch and Hobbes. Each row names its own source. Years: negative numbers are BCE; ranges use year_start and year_end. Compiled 2026-10-07, revised 2026-10-31. License CC BY 4.0 (facts and arrangement; quoted phrases are from public-domain translations).",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": "Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas",
  "page": "https://puzzleschartsanddilemmas.com/thought-experiments/ship-of-theseus/",
  "derived_from": [
    "Plato, Phaedo, trans. Benjamin Jowett, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1658 (public domain)",
    "Plutarch, Life of Theseus 23.1, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (Loeb, 1914), with the Loeb editor's note 29, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Theseus*.html (public domain text)",
    "Thomas Hobbes, De Corpore, in W. Molesworth (ed.), The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 1 (1839), pp. 135-138, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73877 (public domain)",
    "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries Socrates (rev. 2022-05-26), Plutarch (rev. 2024-12-05), Thomas Hobbes (rev. 2025-03-01) and Identity Over Time (rev. 2026-01-12), https://plato.stanford.edu/ (dates and facts only, no text reproduced)"
  ],
  "method": "Compiled by Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas from the data listed"
}