Xanthippus
Xanthippus was a
Greek (possibly Spartan) mercenary general hired by the
Carthaginians to aid in their war against the
Romans during the
First Punic War. He trained Carthaginian soldiers and led them into battle near
Tunis, where his forces routed the Roman expeditionary force and captured the Roman consul
Regulus in
255 BC.
Xanthippus was also the father of the
Ancient Greek statesman
Pericles, and was
eponymous archon of
Athens in
479 BC.