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	Himilco the Navigator
		Himilco is the first known sailor from the Mediterranean Sea to reach the northwestern shores of Europe.
		Himilco was quoted three times by Rufus Festus Avienus, who wrote a poetical account of the geography in the fourth century AD We know next to nothing of Himilco himself.
		Himilco was not (according to Avienus) the first to sail the northern Atlantic ocean; according to Avenius, Himilco followed the trade route used by the Tartessians of southern Iberia.
	music.musictnt.com /biography/sdmc_Himilco_the_Navigator (253 words)

	Geography - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The most celebrated voyage of antiquity undertaken for the express purpose of discovery was that fitted out by the senate of Carthage under the command of Hanno, with the intention of founding new colonies along the west coast of Africa.
		Himilco, a contemporary of Hanno, was charged with an expedition along the west coast of Iberia northward, and as far as the uncertain references to this voyage can be understood, he seems to have passed the Bay of Biscay and possibly sighted the coast of England.
		Vespucci afterwards made three voyages to the Brazilian coast; and in 1504 he wrote an account of his four voyages, which was widely circulated, and became the means of procuring for its author at the hands of the cartographer Waldseemi ller in 1507 the disproportionate distinction of giving his name to the whole continent.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Geography (16612 words)

	Carthage
		During the Siege of Agrigentum, the Carthaginian forces were ravaged by plague and Hannibal Mago died of the same.
		Although Hannibal Mago's successor, Himilco, successfully extended the campaign by breaking a Greek siege, capturing the city of Gela, and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius, the new Tyrant of Syracuse, he, too, was weakened by the plague and forced to sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
		Himilco responded decisively to this attack, leading an expedition which not only reclaimed Motya, but also Messina.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/c/ca/carthage.html (1723 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 473 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		[hanno the navigator.] He is not elsewhere referred to by Pliny, but is quoted repeatedly as an authority by Festus Avienus in his geographical poem called Ora Maritima (vv.
		It appears from the passages there cited that Himilco had represented his farther progress as prevented by the stagnant nature of the sea, loaded with sea weed, and the absence of wind, statements which do not speak highly for his character as a discoverer.
		Perhaps it was intentionally wrapt in obscurity by the commercial jealousy of the Carthaginians, and the fabulous statements just alluded to may have been designed to prevent navigators of other nations from following in the same track.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1581.html (969 words)

	Phoenicia, Phoenicians in Brazil
		The Phoenicians navigated by using the technique of stars orientation, the sea flows and through the winds courses.
		They mention an expedition of a Phoenician navigator to a region beyond the Strait of Moloch (today's Gibraltar) where "the sea penetrated into the land..." a place where there was an abundance of food and lots of wood.
		The first European navigator to be familiar with this land was the Roman Severus Pompeus, whose documents related to that fact is in the Vatican archives.
	www.phoenicia.org /brazil.html (3611 words)

	Himilco the Navigator biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Himilco was the member of one of the leading family in Carthage.
		Himilco sailed north along of Atlantic coast of today Spain, Portugal and France.
		Himilco was not (according to Avienus) first to sail the northern Atlantic ocean; According to Avenius Himilco followed the route used by the Tartessians of southern Iberia.
	www.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 /Himilco_the_Navigator.html (122 words)

	A History of Africa, Chapter 3
		Himilco promptly evacuated the eastern camp, fearing it would be surrounded, but when Dionysius attacked the western one, his soldiers went forth one unit at a time, instead of together, allowing Himilco to defeat them piecemeal before Dionysius himself could get to the battle.
		Whatever the reason, Himilco must have dictated the terms of the treaty, because the only thing Dionysius got was recognition as ruler of Syracuse; the rest was highly favorable to Carthage, putting two thirds of Sicily in Carthaginian hands.
		Himilco may have allowed him to remain in charge because he thought that the Syracusans would get rid of a leader who had been humiliated in battle--we noted earlier that the Carthaginians were always willing to do that to their own!
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /africa/carthage.html (9490 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Himilco, successfully extended the campaign by breaking a Greek siege, capturing the city of
		Gela, and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius, the new Tyrant of Syracuse, he, too, was weakened by the plague and forced to sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
		Hanno the Navigator, led the Carthaginian response and met with tremendous success.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Carthage.html (2762 words)

	Carthaginians in The New World Evidence of ancient explorers traveling to the new world does exist, and more than a ...
		They were able to navigate by the stars, unlike their Greek and Roman counterparts who without any compass were forced to sail within sight of land at all times.
		Another navigational instrument which probably was in use by Phoenicians was the cross-staff, a long sighting staff with uprights set at various spots which allowed the user to determine latitude as well as direction.
		Furthermore, some instinctive oceanic navigation skill was very probable among these sailors - similar to the unerring way Polynesians could find their way to tiny specks of land in the vast expanse of the Pacific simply by observing the formations of clouds, the flights of birds and even the way waves form far from land.
	phoenicia.org /carthanewworld.html (3876 words)

	Stroies from the sea - more things you probably did not know about our oceans
		There are also claims that the Chinese used a the magnet for navigation as early as 2634 BC.
		navigation by John Hadley of England in 1731.
		work on navigation that when he died in 1838, ships of all nations flew their flag on half mast.
	www.captainsvoyage.com /maritimestoriespage2.html (2028 words)

	Reference Encyclopedia - Carthage
		The Barcid family after Hamilcar himself was half Iberian through their mother, Hamilcar's wife - a member of the Iberian nobility, whose children all rose to leading positions in both their native cultures.
		Adherbal the Red and the Hanno the Navigator were also of mixed origin, the former identified from his Celti[Iberian] epithet, and the latter from a coupling much like the later Barcids.
		It had conquered much of modern day Tunisia, strengthened and founded new colonies in North Africa, and sponsored Mago Barca's journey across the Sahara Desert, Hanno the Navigator's journey down the African coast, and Himilco the Navigator's exploration of the European Atlantic coast.
	referenceencyclopedia.com /?title=Carthage (7801 words)

	Carthage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After Hamilcar's death in 480 BC, the dynasty continued on with Hamilcar's son Hanno 'the Navigator' up to 440 BC, under whom a large part of Carthage's African dominions were conquered and more of the Atlantic coast of Africa was explored and settled.
		Hannibal's cousin Himilco (son of Hanno the Navigator and grandson of Hamilcar) now assumed the reigns of power over Carthage.
		General Himilco who had heroically held out at Lilybaeum and Adherbal, the commander who had just dealt Rome it's greatest defeat in the war, were both relived of their positions.
	www.roman-empire.net /republic/carthage.html (11441 words)

	Untitled Document
		He was curious about the world; he was interested in new navigational aids and better ship design and was eager to test them; he was also a crusader and hoped that, by sailing south and then east along the coast of Africa, Arab power in North Africa could be attacked from the rear.
		The voyage of the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, from 1519 to 1521, dispelled two long-cherished illusions: first, that there was an easy way through the barrier and, second, that, once the barrier was passed, Cathay was near at hand.
		In 1798 to 1799, two British navigators, George Bass and Matthew Flinders, circumnavigated Tasmania, and in 1801–03 Flinders charted the coast of the Great Australian Bight and circumnavigated the continent, thereby proving that there was no strait from the bight to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
	www.history.upenn.edu /coursepages/hist086/material/Exploration.html (8846 words)

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		At roughly the same time as the dispatch of Himilco to Britain, round about 530 B.C., a second and even larger Carthaginian mariner expedition was undertaken under the command of Admiral Hanno, a close relative of Himilco; this expedition proves how immensely important the Atlantic islands were to the Carthaginians.
		As regards navigation and ship- building technique, the possibility of conquering the Atlantic Ocean already existed in classical antiquity--there is no doubt of that.
		Apparently Henry the Navigator proposed to King Eric of Denmark that an expedition should be dispatched to the north-west.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/nts/HERRMANN.NTS (11154 words)

	Himilco (disambiguation) - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Himilco (Phoenician Chimilkât) was a popular Carthaginian name.
		Himilco, pioneering Carthaginian explorer and Atlantic navigator of the 5th?
		Himilco, surnamed Phameas, Carthaginian cavalry commander of the Third Punic War (149-146 BC).
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Himilco_(disambiguation) (66 words)

	The Mariners' Museum: Newport News, Virginia
		Himilco travels to England and establishes tin trade.
		Prince Henry the Navigator establishes a Naval observatory for the teaching of navigation, astronomy, and cartography.
		Invention of the printing press spurs wide distribution of navigation tables and ship plans.
	www.mariner.org /educationalad/ageofex/timeline.php (489 words)

	YLM vol 1 no 1 p216/221 - Boaldyn
		The Cassiterides, or Tin Islands from the Greek kassiteros=tin or pewter, whence these navigators are also supposed to have procured tin, have not with certainty been identified.
		and of the Massilian navigator Pytheas as myths.
		His opinion is that the Phoenicians did not sail as far as the British Isles, but only as far as the mouth of the Rhone, and that the metal in which they traded was transported front Britain across Gaul.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/iomnhas/lm1p216.htm (2805 words)

	Encyclopedia of Science and History, volume Z
		ZAMA, HAMILCAR ("the shrewd", 9957-10020) was the only son of Himilco Zama and Byrsa Kart and as such represented the confluence of two great families theretofore distinct.
		The Zama family had long been associated with analytical and abstruse business concerns; they did not lack in innovation, having been the first to introduce the notion of futures trading, but were not known for great exploits.
		Hamilcar was a businessman and lawyer without peer; he was a trained navigator and pilot, and was said to have signed on to his own ships in disguise to observe first hand the quality of the officers and crew.
	www.multifoliate.com /dnd/Ref/Enc-vol-Z.html (1561 words)

	Hanno the Navigator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Livio Catullo Stecchini, "The voyage of Hanno" carefully analyzed by a classical scholar.
		Annotated commentary on Hanno's Periplus by Jona Lendering.
		Hanno the Navigator • Hanno, son of Bomilcar • Hasdrubal Barca • Hasdrubal Gisco • Hasdrubal the Fair • Hasdrubal, commander of the service corps • Himilco the Navigator • Mago (agricultural writer) • Mago Barca • Maharbal • Saints Perpetua and Felicitas • Sophonisba
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hanno_the_Navigator (621 words)

	CARTHAGE, ancient city, N Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The navigator Hanno is supposed to have sailed down the African coast as far as Sierra Leone in the early 5th cent.
		The statesman Mago arrived at treaties with the Etruscans, the Romans, and some of the Greeks.
		B.C.), and his colleague Himilco sacked Acragas (modern Agrigento) in 406
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ca/CarthageAf.html (743 words)

	PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL - Online Information article about PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Himilco, a contemporary of Hanno, was charged with an expedition along the west coast of Iberia northward, and as far as the uncertain references to this voyage can be understood, he seems to have passed the See also:
		Archipelago began to be a formidable rival to the Phoenician soon after the time of Hanno and Himilco, and See also:
		Cosa, from whose maps we learn much of the discoveries of the 16th century navigators, and by a Florentine named Amerigo See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PRE_PYR/PROGRESS_OF_GEOGRAPHICAL.html (4882 words)

	WEST AFRICA & THE SEA IN ANTIQUITY
		This further shows from whom the Greeks learnt their navigation and more on Greek night-sailing is shown in the Odyssey when Odysseus/Ulysses steers using star-systems, when Athene tells Telemachus (son of Odysseus) to steer through the night.
		Some of this star-based navigation was also known to Amerindians, as proven by Peck (ib.) but he regards Polaris as of no consequence to the Maya yet others consider Polaris as Mayan God-C. Callaghan (ib) noting Amerindians overcoming a Spanish night-watch, taking their ship and sailing home shows Amerindian night-sailing.
		This seems to be the logical end of Africa in terms of navigation of both across the Sahara and on the Atlantic.
	www.clarence-webpage.com /AfricanArts/bourne001.html (21304 words)

	Carthage - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Greek city-states of Sicily were thus preserved, but the Carthaginian threat continued and grew with the steadily increasing power of Carthage.
		Hamilcar's grandson, Hannibal (another name much used in the family), destroyed Himera (409 BC), and his colleague Himilco sacked Acragas (modern Agrigento) in 406 BC Syracuse resisted the conquerors, and a century later Carthage was threatened by the campaign (310-307?) of the tyrant Agathocles on the shores of Africa.
		After his death, however, Carthage had practically complete control over all the W Mediterranean.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-carthageaf.html (925 words)

	A History of Europe, Chapter 1
		Since two families held most of the top positions in Carthage, it is likely that Hanno and Himilco were brothers.
		Himilco made it to the northern shore of Brittany before turning back, and described the Atlantic as a place full of calm zones where ships couldn't find any wind for their sails, vast beds of seaweed, extensive shallows, dense mists, and huge sea monsters.
		No doubt he was exaggerating, to scare off competitors; this area was so rich in tin that the Greeks called Britain the "Tin Isles" when they heard about it later on.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /europe/eu01.html (20688 words)

	The Mariners' Museum: Newport News, Virginia
		He was one of the first to carry a chronometer,thus assisting him in determining his exact position on the globe.
		1611) - English navigator and explorer who set sail on four voyages in his lifetime.
		King Joao I - Father of Prince Henry, the Navigator.
	www.mariner.org /educationalad/ageofex/biographies.php (1921 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Himilco
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		Himilco is a name that can refer to the following entities:
		Himilco was a very common name in Punic Carthage.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Himilco (186 words)

	Romans in China? - Total War Center Forums
		The more likely scenario is that there was indeed contact between the old world and the new which involved trade.
		In my opinion the Egyptians were not particularly good seamen, but the Phoenicians were! The trade routes they used were jealously guarded secrets, and their ability to navigate was well known.
		Some strange artifacts have turned up in these ruins (called the Hopewell culture) including one amulet that appears very much Hebrew! In some of these ruins there are long stone structures that look remarkably like the 'boat sheds' used by Punic and Greek sailors to protect their ships during foul weather.
	www.twcenter.net /forums/showthread.php?t=14960 (7151 words)

	Himilco the Navigator at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Himilco the Navigator at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)
		Himilco (Phoenician ChimilkÃ¢t), Carthaginian navigator and explorer lived in the 5th century BC.
		These accounts of monsters became one source of the myths discouraging sailing in the Atlantic.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/h/hi/himilco_the_navigator.htm (246 words)

	List of explorers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Diogo Cao, (15th century), Portuguese navigator, explored the area around the West African coast
		Vasco da Gama, (1469?-1524), Portuguese navigator, first to reach India from Europe by the sea route
	list-of-explorers.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1473 words)

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