Hasdrubal the Fair

Hasdrubal the Fair

Hasdrubal the Fair (ca. 270 - 221 BC) was a Carthaginian leader. [http://www.bc-enschede.nl/wenglish/grassroots/clashofthetitans/3g/lamain_meijer/HannibalwebsitedoorMarloesLamainenEstherMeijer/Hannibalslife.htm] [http://fr.ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563391/Hasdrubal.html] [http://www.apollonia.com.tn/hgbww5.htm]

He was the brother-in-law of Hannibal and son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca [Livy's History of Rome: Book 21.2] , who followed the latter in his campaign against the governing aristocracy at Carthage at the close of the First Punic War, and in his subsequent career of conquest in Hispania. There were rumors that Hasdrubal and Hamilcar were lovers, and that the Hasdrubal's marriage to Hamilcar's daughter was a pretext for them to continue their relationship undetected.cite book| last = Nepos | first = Cornelius| authorlink = Cornelius Nepos| title = Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae| date = circa 380 BC| location = XXII.III.|quote=There also accompanied him a young man named Hasdrubal, a person of high birth and great beauty, who, as some said, was beloved by Hamilcar with less regard to his character than was becoming; for so great a man could not fail to have slanderers. Hence it happened that Hasdrubal was forbidden by the censor of public morals to associate with him; but Hamilcar then gave him his daughter in marriage, because, according to their usages, a son-in-law could not be interdicted the society of his father-in-law.] ["Hasdrubal, coming between father and son, held the supreme power for eight years. He is said to have become a favourite of Hamilcar's owing to his personal beauty as a boy; afterwards he displayed talents of a very different order, and became his son-in-law." Livy's History of Rome: Book 21.2 [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Liv3His.sgm&
] ]

After Hamilcar's death (228 BC) Hasdrubal, who succeeded him in the command, extended the newly acquired empire by skillful diplomacy, and consolidated it by the foundation of Carthago Nova (Cartagena) as the capital of the new province, and by a treaty with the Roman Republic which fixed the Ebro as the boundary between the two powers. He was killed by a Celtic assassin. [http://www.apollonia.com.tn/hgbww5.htm]

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* [http://www.livius.org/ha-hd/hasdrubal/hasdrubal2.html Livius.org: Hasdrubal the Fair]


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