Hanno (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Early Life
Hanno (HAN-oh) belongs to that lamentably large class of ancients whose names have survived the centuries for a single history-shaping deed but about whom little else is known. Apart from scattered, confused references to his voyage in a few ancient works, the main source of information on Hanno is his text known as the Periplus (The Voyage of Hanno, 1797; best known as Periplus). Consisting of just under 650 words of Greek, it purports to be a translation of the public inscription Hanno erected in the temple of Kronos at Carthage to commemorate...
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