Later lives print a suicide in Bithynia as received tradition, not as a coroner file
A received suicide is not a clinic he founded. Hannibal is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. In the causal graph this event weakens Health-System Capacity, a driver that strengthens Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) — a worsening welfare path.
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The dated public carrier is that modern life-cluster.
Context
A received suicide is not a clinic he founded. Modest path.
Hannibal is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Printed Bithynian death is not an ISO civil-registry file.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Hannibal
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.2 · verified
Named Carthaginian general as heading of later annalistic epic. Polybius, Livy, and later staff colleges publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLater lives print a suicide in Bithynia as received tradition, not as a coroner file
- weakensDriverHealth-System Capacity
- strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 June 1923 · verified
Printed Bithynian death is not an ISO civil-registry file.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.6)
Observed
3.08 Per 1000 people · 1.24 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normal6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 3.07 Per 1000 people to 3.08 Per 1000 people.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.5)
Observed
37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Harvard / Loeb — Livy, History of Rome (Second Punic War books)Harvard University Press · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — HannibalEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica and Loeb-adjacent lives print death by poison in Bithynia as received.
Not established: a unique Factrail-original body count, or a recovered 216 BCE civil-registry file.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorHannibal
- contributed toFactLater lives print a suicide in Bithynia as received tradition, not as a coroner file
- weakensDriverHealth-System Capacity
- strengthensIndicatorHospital beds (per 1,000 people)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Later lives print a suicide in Bithynia as received tradition, not as a coroner file. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ha-suicide-tradition
https://factrail.ai/facts/ha-suicide-tradition
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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