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Revision as of 02:05, 6 October 2008 by Nandesuka (talk | contribs) (Rewrote section on the relationship with Hamilcar, added citation to Cornlius Nepos.)(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 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. Some believed that Hasdrubal was Hamilcar's lover, and that his marriage to Hamilcar's daughter was thus a pretext for them to continue their relationship.
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.
References
- Livy's History of Rome: Book 21.2
- Nepos, Cornelius (circa 380 BC). Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae. XXII.III.
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.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "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
