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Gisgo or Gisco is the
latinization or
hellenization ( grc-gre, Γέσκων, ''Géskōn'') of the
Punic masculine
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given name
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Gersakkun (, ).
[.] The name means "Client of the god Sakkun."
Notable people with the name Gisgo or Gisco include:
* Gisco, a son of Carthaginian general
Hamilcar, exiled after the
Battle of Himera in 480 BC
*
Gisco (died 239 BC)
Gisco was a Carthaginian general who served during the closing years of the First Punic War (264–241 BC) and took a leading part in the events which sparked the Mercenary War. He was a citizen of the city state of Carthage, which was located ...
, a Carthaginian general who served during the closing years of the First Punic War and took a leading part in the events which sparked the Mercenary War
* Gisgo, son of
Hanno the Great Hanno the Great may refer to any of three different leaders of ancient Carthage:
*Hanno I the Great (4th century BC)
*Hanno II the Great (3rd century BC)
*Hanno III the Great (2nd century BC)
According to B. H. Warmington, the nickname was probabl ...
, who was a notable general of the Sicilian campaigns of the
First Punic War
The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and grea ...
* Gisco, one of three ambassadors sent by Hannibal to King
Philip V of Macedon in 215 BC
* Gisgo, a Carthaginian officer at the
Battle of Cannae
The Battle of Cannae () was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy. The Carthaginians and their allies, led by ...
who, noting the great size of the Roman army, provoked Hannibal's retort, "Another thing that has escaped your notice, Gisgo, is even more amazing: That, although there are so many of them, there is not one among them called Gisgo."
* Gisco, a Carthaginian who argued against the peace terms offered by
Scipio Africanus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (, , ; 236/235–183 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, most notable as one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War. Often regarded as one of the best military com ...
after the
Battle of Zama in 202 BC
* Gisco, Carthaginian magistrate who opposed negotiations with Rome in 152 BC before the
Third Punic War
* Gisco Strytanus, ambassador to Rome in 146 BC
See also
*
Hasdrubal Gisco ("Hasdrubal, son of Gisco"; died 202BC), Carthaginian military commander in the Second Punic War
*
Hannibal Gisco
Hannibal Gisco ( xpu, 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 , ; –258BC) was a Carthaginian military commander in charge of both land armies and naval fleets during the First Punic War against Rome. His efforts proved ultimately unsuccessful and his eventua ...
("Hannibal, son of Gisco"; –260BC), Carthaginian military commander
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