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Revision as of 00:37, 6 October 2008 by Haiduc (talk | contribs) (expand ref)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Hasdrubal the Fair (d. 221 BC) was a Carthaginian leader.
He was the brother-in-law of Hannibal and catamite and son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca, 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. 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.
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- "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
