Amilcas
Family: Carthaginian · Role: king of the Carthaginians · First appears: Book 7 · §163–169
Life events
- Terillos brought Amilcas and an army to Sicily, with Anaxilaos helping and giving his sons as hostages.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Sicily)
- With: Terillos Anaxilaos
- “Terillos had persuaded partly by reason of his own guest-friendship, and especially by the zealous assistance of Anaxilaos the son of Cretines, who was despot of Rhegion, and who to help his father-in-law endeavoured to bring in Amilcas to Sicily, and had given him his sons as hostages”
- Gelon and Theron defeated Amilcas, who disappeared and was never found alive or dead.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Sicily)
- According to the Carthaginians, Amilcas burned himself in the fire and disappeared during the battle.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Carthage)
- “when he saw that there was a rout of his own army, he being then, as it chanced, in the act of pouring a libation over the victims, threw himself into the fire, and thus he was burnt up and disappeared.”
- The Carthaginians offered sacrifices to Amilcas and made memorials of him in their colonies.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Carthage)
- “the Carthaginians both offer sacrifices to him now, and also they made memorials of him then in all the cities of their colonies, and the greatest in Carthage itself.”
Book 7 · §163–169
- parent: Annon “Amilcas the son of Annon king of the Carthaginians”
- enemies with Gelon “Gelon and Theron were victorious over Amilcas the Carthaginian on the very same day”
- enemies with Theron “Gelon and Theron were victorious over Amilcas the Carthaginian on the very same day”
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