| Name |
Estimated
dates of birth and death BC |
Key
roles |
|
Himilco
of Lilybaeum |
|
Valiant
defender of Lilybaeum 254-249 during the First Punic War |
|
Adherbal
the Admiral |
|
Commander
of Carthaginian fleet who won mastery of the seas for Carthage in
251-250 (First Punic War)He was in command at least until 249 BC (Drepana) |
|
Hamilcar
Barca |
|
The
Thunderbolt. Father to Hannibal. Enemy of Hanno. died near Helche |
|
Hanno
the Great |
|
Enemy
of the Barcids. General in the Mercenary war. |
|
Hasdrubal
the Handsome |
|
Son-in-law
of Hamilcar Barca. Assasinated by a Spanish patriot. Accused of attempting
to establish a dynasty in Spain. |
|
Maharbal
son of Himilco |
|
Cavalry
commander and lieutenant of Hannibal. Probably not the son of Himilco
of Lilybaeum. |
|
Hanno
"The Rab" |
|
Conservative
politician, who convinced Carthage to trust Rome's mercy prior to
the start of 3PW |
|
Hasdrubal
"The Boetarch" |
|
Leader
of Carthaginian army during 3PW. |
|
Hannibal
"The Rhodian" |
|
"famous"
blockade runner during the 1PW due to his speedy ships -cheated repeatedly
the Roman naval blockade to Lylibeon |
|
Xanthippus |
|
While
not actually Carthaginian, he certainly helped them. He was a Greek
mercenary general (Spartan, I believe) that trained Carthaginian troops
during the First Punic War and supposedly led them in a battle near
Tunis, where they routed the Roman expeditionary force under Regulus
in 255 |
|
Carthalo
(General/Admiral) |
|
General/admiral
who recaptured Agrigentum in 255-54, relieved Drepana in 254 and then
co-operated with Adherbal after the battle of Drepana in 249 in keeping
the sea power for Carthage. His manouvres between Lylibeo and Pachynus
caused severe damages to two Roman fleets (burning and capturing ships
in the West, relenting the navigation and exposing the Romans to a
storm in the east). After that he operated on land near Eryx where
he recaptured the fortified place of Akellos with 800 Romans among
which the Consul Iunius Pullus! He was still in Sicily when Hamilkar
Barka arrived and then misteriously disappeared around 248-246?? as
Adherbal had already done before. |
|
Hasdrubal
(General) |
|
commander in chief of the Carthaginians in Africa against Regulus
before and at the Bagradas Battle of 255 BC (Xanthippus was the trainer/planner
but the Carthaginians certainly did not let him have the official
leadership of the battle!) can be accounted. He was sent to Sicily
but did not take advantage of the momentarily upperhand for Carthage,
laft Panormus undefended and then was beaten by the Romans under its
walls!! Contrarily to Adherbal and Carthalo, he was the typical product
of the Carthaginian tradition of "wait and see, they will get tired!" |
|
Gisgo |
|
Commanded at Lylibeo after Himilko, being as brave as his predecessor,
he correctly sent the Mercs back in small groups. Father of Hasdrubal
Gisgo. killed by the Mercs, commanded at Lylibeum in the last years
of war(and thus we should assume Himilko died or was dismissed). Certainly
a capable commander we can guess he was close to Hamilkar and was
probably father to Hasdrubal Gisgo who lost at . |
|
Hasdrubal
Gisgo |
|
probably
son of Gisgo of Lylibeon and slightly older to the Barkas brothers,
was preferred to them for commanding in Spain. Repeatedly beaten by
Scipio (llipa and Great Plains) |
|
Hanno |
|
accompanied
Hannibal in Italy |
|
Mago
Saunites |
|
commanded
the Bruttium area and guided the cavalry ambush at Herdonea 212 BC,father
to Hamilkar Saunites |
|
Hamilcar
Saunites (son of Mago S.?) probably son of Mago S. he was leader
of the demos |
|
leader
with Carthalo the Boetarch of the democratic party some years after
Hannibal departure while Hasdrubal the Kid was leader of the pro-Numidian
party and Hanno the Rab that of the pro-Romans |
|
Himilco
Phameas |
|
PW3
- led the cavalry (the 1st of them deserted to the Romans in 147after
beating them several times and went to Rome after his defection )commander
of the cavalry beated repeatedly the Romans in PW3 but changed side
when he saw Carthage was doomed. |
|
Bythia |
|
PW3
- led the cavalry |
|
Hamilcar
the general/ admiral |
|
general
at Agrigentum, then admiral at Ecnomus and possibly in Sicily again
until was recalled to join Hasdrubal and Bostar against Regulus in
Africa. His battleplan at Ecnomus was brilliant but executing it by
oars was all another matter.... |
|
Hasdrubal |
|
Commander
of the HCav at Cannae (and at Trebbia), of him we have no subsequent
news (AFAIK), but certainly one of the best officers of Hannibal's
equipe. leader of the heavy cavalry at Trebia and Cannae, his triple
charge there is still regarded as exceptiona Maybe he was some attendant
to Hamilcar in Spain so he died of age or left Italy much sooner than
202 BC. |
|
Bomilkar
the admiral |
|
belonging
probably to the democratic party he took command after the Karts had
already lost a couple of squadrons around Italy. Though never determinant
he covered for a while the Sicilian invasion and then deliverd to
Hannibal the only support ever directed to Italy before Hasdrubal
Barka in 207 BC. |
|
Mytonnes/Muttines
|
|
original
from one of the other Phoenician cities of Africa, he bravely leaded
the Numidians in Sicily until he deserted to the Romans because of
the stupidity of the "aristocratic" Commander Hanno |
|
Carthalo
the Boetarch |
|
guided
the army in the exhausting border attritions with Masinissa |
|
Hasdrubal
Clitomacus |
|
a
Platonic philosopher, moved to Athens before 146, becoming the leader
of the Platonic school. If Carthage had won the 2nd war it is possible
he might have decide to remain in his city and become a political
leader |
|
Hasdrubal
the Kid : |
|
he
led the pro-Massinissa party who hoped to unite the north Africa under
the king and then re-Punicize the kingdom at his death (not a bad
idea, actually!). His party was expelled from carthage before 149
BC |
|
Hanno
the lieutenant |
|
probably
relative to the Barkas, sometimes commanded separated corps of the
Chartaginian army in Italy |
