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Xanthippus

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'''Xanthippus''' was a Greece Greek (possibly Spartan) mercenary general hired by the Carthaginians to aid in their war against the Roman Republic Romans during the First Punic War. He trained Carthaginian soldiers and led them into the battle of Tunis, where Carthaginian forces routed the Roman expeditionary force and captured the Roman consul Marcus Atilius Regulus in 255 BC. Xanthippus is credited with the Carthaginian formation, cavalry split between the two wings, mercenary infantry on their right, with a hastily raised phalanx of civilians in the centre and a line of elephants in front of the infantry, which defeated the Romans formed in their normal formation, with the outnumbered cavalry on the wings and legionary infantry in the centre. ---- '''Xanthippus''' was also the father of the Ancient Greece Ancient Greek statesman Pericles, and was Archons of Athens eponymous archon of Athens in 479 BC. Category:Ancient Roman enemies and allies Category:Ancient Spartans Category:Mercenaries de:Xanthippos (Athen) de:Xanthippos (Sparta) fr:Xanthippe (Athènes) fr:Xanthippe (Sparte)