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Until 308 BC Carthage was ruled, at least officially, by monarchs, in the sense of the word that executive power was held by one person. [1] It also seems for the time period below to have been passed down in the clan of the Magonids. The title itself was most likely Suffete. [2]: 115–116 Hannonids. Hanno I c. 580 – c. 556 BC
Hasdrubal I of Carthage — Magonid king of Ancient Carthage 530–510 BC; Hasdrubal the Fair (c. 270 BC – 221 BC), son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca; Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal and Mago; Hasdrubal Gisco Gisgonis (died 202 BC), another commander in the Second Punic War, father of Sophonisba
Records indicate that different families held power at different times, suggesting a non-hereditary system of government dependent on the support or approval of the consultative body. [134] Carthage's political system changed dramatically after 480 BC, with the death of King Hamilcar I following his disastrous foray into the First Sicilian War ...
The name Carthage (/ ˈ k ɑːr θ ɪ dʒ / KAR-thij) is the Early Modern anglicisation of Middle French Carthage /kartaʒə/, [12] from Latin Carthāgō and Karthāgō (cf. Greek Karkhēdōn (Καρχηδών) and Etruscan *Carθaza) from the Punic qrt-ḥdšt (𐤒𐤓𐤕 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 ) "new city", [b] implying it was a "new Tyre". [14]
Mago I, also known as Magon [1] (Punic: 𐤌𐤂𐤍, MGN), [2] was the king of the Ancient Carthage from 550 BC to 530 BC and the founding monarch of the Magonid dynasty of Carthage. [3] Mago I was originally a general. [4] Under Mago, Carthage became preeminent among the Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean. [citation needed]
Aeneas tells Dido of the fall of Troy. (Guérin 1815)Carthage was founded by Phoenicians coming from the Levant.The city's name in Phoenician language means "New City". [5] There is a tradition in some ancient sources, such as Philistos of Syracuse, for an "early" foundation date of around 1215 BC – that is before the fall of Troy in 1180 BC; however, Timaeus of Taormina, a Greek historian ...
Finally, Carthage and Syracuse agreed a peace. In 480 BCE, following Hamilcar I's death, the King lost most of his power to an aristocratic Council of Elders. In 308 BCE, Bomilcar attempted a coup d'etat to restore the monarch to full power, but failed, which led to Carthage becoming in name as well as in fact a republic. [5] [6]
Hamilcar the Magonid, "King" of Carthage, led the Carthaginian forces at the Battle of Himera in 480 BC during the First Sicilian War Hamilcar, a general against Timoleon of Syracuse Hamilcar, a brother of Gisco , possibly brother of Hanno II , with whom he was executed in the middle of the 3rd century BC [ 3 ]