Make Cannae small inside a much larger world. The event is only the focal point. The real ontology includes the city, the Republic, the war, the theater, the sources, the aftermath, and the worlds that make those relationships meaningful.
source-backed snapshot The renderer changes. The ontology does not.
The surrounding world is a navigation and context layer around the source-backed event graph.
Every click changes the graph. One projection over the actual snapshot. Select an object, follow a typed edge, or change the window. The surrounding nodes are recalculated from the selected object.
757 nodes 1443 typed edges Reset to Cannae
Full world civilizations, routes, neighbors Rome city, senate, institutions Republic polity and campaign network Punic War theater, armies, allies Cannae sources, claims, passages
Punic War sequence First Punic War → Second Punic War → Third Punic War
civilizations, routes, neighbors 18 visible nodes · 31 visible edges
selected object actual edges only
event
Battle of Cannae recentered neighborhood place
Cannae region
Roman sphere story
The Long Way to Rome conflict
Second Punic War event
Battle of Cannae — Rome's Worst Defeat place
Capua story
The World at 334 BCE conflict
First Punic War conflict
Third Punic War outcome
Carthage expelled from Iberia outcome
Roman victory over Hannibal event
Antiochus III's Great Anabasis — The East Reclaimed event
Battle of Heraclea — Pyrrhus Defeats Rome event
Battle of Ilipa — Scipio Drives Carthage from Spain event
Battle of Raphia — Ptolemy IV Defeats Antiochus III event
Battle of the Caudine Forks — Rome Humiliated event
Battle of the Metaurus — Hasdrubal Barca Destroyed Battle of Cannae
The 216 BCE battle, enriched from primary accounts and modern research while preserving source disagreement.
Battle of Cannae neutral event:hannibal:cannae
The 216 BCE battle, enriched from primary accounts and modern research while preserving source disagreement.
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33 total spans ← spans · The Long Way to Rome located in → located in · Roman sphere depicts ← depicts · Cannae part of → part of · Second Punic War located at → located at · Cannae interprets ← interprets · Histories, Book 3 interprets ← interprets · History of Rome, Book 22 interprets ← interprets · History of Rome, Book 23 interprets ← interprets · The Hannibalic War, Chapter IV interprets ← interprets · Life of Marcellus interprets ← interprets · Geography, Book 6 interprets ← interprets · Cannae Battlefield: A Geomorphic-Geoarchaeologic Perspective
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Visible relationships come from this materialized snapshot. Outcome edges remain qualified, not automatic causal claims.
Path anchor Mediterranean world → Rome → Roman Republic → Second Punic War → Cannae selected object: event