Himilkon ( Latin Himilco , Greek: Ἱμίλκων ) - Carthaginian navigator of the VI or V centuries BC e., a likely contemporary of Gannon , who took long and long trips along the shores of Africa , Spain and Gaul .
He was the first to visit the North Ocean and showed the way to the British Isles . Gimilkon (perhaps to discourage long-distance sailing from competitors) reported that giant algae and terrible monsters block the path to the northern seas.
Extremely scarce information about his travels has been preserved in " Natural History " [1] and in the poetic arrangement of the Himilkon’s periplane made by Avien [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Pliny the Elder. Natural History, II, 169.
- ↑ Rufus Fest Avien. Sea coast, 115; 380; 410.
Literature
- Gimilkon // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Gimilkon (English) . - in Smith 's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
- Yelnitsky L.A. Swimming of the Hamilcon // Ancient Ocean Swimming . - M .: Geografgiz, 1962. - S. 37-38. - 90 s. - 58,000 copies.
- Hennig, Richard. Chapter 13. Voyage of the Gimilkon to the Tin Islands (about 525 BC) // Unknown lands = Terrae Incognitae. - M .: Publishing house of foreign literature, 1961. - T. I. - S. 154-159. - 516 p.