Source: Diodorus Siculus: Bibliotheca Historica, Book XIII
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Hannibal Gisco 🇹🇳

حنبعل جيسكو (Known as "Hannibal the Magonid")
Suffete of Carthage, Supreme General of the Sicilian Campaigns
Born c. 450 BC 🇹🇳 Carthage, Tunisia
Passed Away 406 BC Agrigentum (Sicily), Italy
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"The vengeance of centuries was executed by his blade before the fever quieted his camp."

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Grandson of Hamilcar I who was elected Suffete of Carthage in 410 BC, commanding victorious Punic armies at Selinus and Himera before succumbing to camp plague at Agrigentum.

Biographical Record

Hannibal Gisco was born into the highest nobility of Carthage, son of Gisco who had been exiled after Himera. Elected suffete in 410 BC, he was entrusted by the Carthaginian Senate with supreme command of the expedition sent to aid Segesta in Sicily.

Demonstrating terrifying tactical efficiency and innovative siege warfare, Hannibal captured Selinus and Himera in 409 BC, avenging his grandfather's defeat. In 406 BC, while directing the prolonged siege of the wealthy Greek city of Agrigentum with siege towers and rams, a devastating epidemic of plague swept through the Punic army encampment, claiming the life of the supreme commander.

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Final Resting Place

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Carthage Necropolis of Dermech
Carthage, Tunisia
GPS: 36.8525, 10.3280
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