The religion of Carthage is not fully understood to this day and is
deserving of further study. We
might come to understand why the general Hamilcar, the son of Hanno,
commited suicide during
the battle of Himera (480 B.C.) when his army was losing, or what
transpired at the end of the
First Punic war (241 B.C.), the day Hamilcar Barca took the hand of
his son Hannibal and
placed it on the sacrificial victim in the temple of Baal Hammon, and
bid him swear that he
would never be a friend to the Romans.
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