Hanno the Great
Hanno the Great may refer to any of three different leaders of ancient Carthage:
- Hanno I the Great (4th century BC)
- Hanno II the Great (3rd century BC)
- Hanno III the Great (2nd century BC)
According to B. H. Warmington, the nickname was probably a family name or a term not well understood by the ancient Greek or Roman writers.[1] Gilbert Charles-Picard and Colette Picard assign the men Roman numerals to distinguish them: Hanno I the Great, Hanno II the Great and Hanno III the Great.[2] Warmington does not use Roman numerals,[1] nor does Dexter Hoyos.[3]
The nicknames for these three Hannos come from different primary sources. Hanno I is called magnus (
Zonaras. Sometimes it taken to be a translation of the Punic title rab, meaning "chief", but this is unlikely. It does not appear in any other Greek or Latin source and may indicate the utilization of a Punic genealogical source and, hence, its status as a family name.[3]
References
- ^ a b B. H. Warmington, Carthage (Robert Hale 1960; Penguin 1964) at 119 [three with nickname]; at 282 [index]; at 115-123 [Hanno the Great, "I"]; at 86, 195-197, 201-206, 209 [Hanno the Great, "II"].
- ^ Gilbert Charles Picard and Colette Picard, Vie et mort de Carthage (Paris: Hachett); translated as Life and Death of Carthage (New York: Taplinger 1968), at 358 [index]; at 8, 129, 131-141 [Hanno I]; at 198-199, 205, 210 [Hanno II]; at 264, 286 [Hanno III].
- ^ a b Dexter Hoyos, The Carthaginians (Routledge, 2010), pp. 135–36.
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