Hasdrubal (son of Gisgos)

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Hasdrubal , Punic 'zrb'l ("my help is Baal "), († probably 202 BC , suicide in Carthage ), the son of Gisgo (also Gisko), led as a Carthaginian general from 214 BC. BC under the two brothers Hannibal , Hasdrubal Barkas and Mago , war against the Romans in Spain . He had a share in the great victory that 211 BC. In the battles of Castulo and Ilorci over the two scipions Publius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus was won. 206 BC He and Mago suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Ilipa together with Scipio the Elder and then left Spain.

By practicing the trade of war , Hasdrubal followed in his father's footsteps, Gisgo. That too was a Carthaginian general. His mercenaries killed him in 237 BC. Under cruel tortures .

When Scipio the Elder in 204 BC After landing in Africa, Gisgo's son was given the command and led the war against the Romans together with the West Numid king Syphax . The Numid was won over to the Carthaginian alliance by the fact that Hasdrubal had married him his daughter Sophonisbe, who was equally distinguished for her beauty and patriotism .

Both generals became 203 BC. Attacked by Scipio in their army camps and suffered a complete defeat. Hasdrubal fled into the walls of Carthage, Syphax into his country.

Hasdrubal was subsequently condemned to death by the Carthaginians, escaped by escaping and gathered an army around him, with whom he wandered around the country. When Hannibal 203 BC When he returned to Africa in the 3rd century BC, he obtained the lifting of the death sentence and accepted Hasdrubal's people into his weakened army.

Hasdrubal Gisgo warned the Carthaginian Senate of the imprudent decision to launch a campaign against Rome, as he classified Hannibal's badly decimated army of veterans as having no chance against the Roman legions, but was insulted by the senators as a coward and pelted with stones by an angry crowd. Hasdrubal, exposed to popular anger, was forced to take refuge in his father's tomb, where he put an end to his life with poison.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Werner Huss: Carthage. Munich 1995, p. 103f.
personal data
SURNAME Hasdrubal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Carthaginian general, son of Gisgos
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 202 BC Chr.
Place of death Carthage