Hanno

Hanno, a king or magistrate of Carthage who undertook a celebrated voyage of discovery along the west coast of Africa. His expedition is said to have consisted of sixty ships; he founded numerous colonies or trading-stations, and proceeded as far south as a point that has been variously identified with places between Cape Nun and the Bight of Benin. On his return to Carthage he inscribed an account of his voyage on a tablet, and placed it in the temple of Moloch. It seems to have been written in the Punie language; the version of it which remains, entitled the Periplus of Hanno, is only a Greek translation. The date of the voyage has been assigned to different periods between 570 B.C. and 470 B.C., and the identification of the author of it has been also a subject for dispute. For a full discussion consult Dodwell's Dissertations, prefixed to Hudson's Geog. Vet. Scriptores (1698); Bougainville's, Vivien de St Martin's, and Tauxier's Essays, Falconer's English translation (1797), and Mer's Mémoire sur le Périple d'Hannon (1885).