__NOTOC__ Gisgo or Gisco is the latinization or

hellenization Hellenization (other British spelling Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonization often led to the Hellenization of indigenous peoples; in the H ...

( grc-gre, Γέσκων, ''Géskōn'') of the

Punic The Punic people, or western Phoenicians, were a Semitic people in the Western Mediterranean who migrated from Tyre, Phoenicia to North Africa during the Early Iron Age. In modern scholarship, the term ''Punic'' – the Latin equivalent of t ...

masculine

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...

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 __NOTOC__ Hamilcar ( xpu, 𐤇𐤌𐤋𐤊 , ,. or , , "Melqart is Gracious"; grc-gre, Ἁμίλκας, ''Hamílkas'';) was a common Carthaginian masculine given name. The name was particularly common among the ruling families of ancient Carthage. ...

, 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 locate ...

, 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 probab ...

, who was a notable general of the Sicilian campaigns of the First Punic War * Gisco, one of three ambassadors sent by Hannibal to King

Philip V of Macedon Philip V ( grc-gre, Φίλιππος ; 238–179 BC) was king ( Basileus) of Macedonia from 221 to 179 BC. Philip's reign was principally marked by an unsuccessful struggle with the emerging power of the Roman Republic. He would lead Macedon ag ...

in 215 BC * Gisgo, a Carthaginian officer at the Battle of Cannae 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 after the

Battle of Zama The Battle of Zama was fought in 202 BC near Zama, now in Tunisia, and marked the end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio, with crucial support from Numidian leader Masinissa, defeated the Carthaginian ...

in 202 BC * Gisco, Carthaginian magistrate who opposed negotiations with Rome in 152 BC before the

Third Punic War The Third Punic War (149–146 BC) was the third and last of the Punic Wars fought between Carthage and Rome. The war was fought entirely within Carthaginian territory, in modern northern Tunisia. When the Second Punic War ended in 201 ...

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