HANNO, a Carthaginian, celebrated for a voyage of discovery along the western coast of Africa; but at what period it was made is not known with any degree of certainty. The different writers who have examined the point have fixed him at various periods between 1000 and 300 B.C.; but we are inclined to agree with Rennel, who thinks he must have lived about 570 B.C. The principal object of this expedition is set forth in the journal, which begins with these words:—"It was decreed by the Carthaginians that Hanno should undertake a voyage beyond the Pillars of Hercules, and found Libyphœnician cities. He accordingly sailed with sixty ships, of fifty oars each, and a body of men and women to the number of 30,000, and provisions and other necessaries." It is much to be regretted that this curious remnant of antiquity should have been exceedingly brief, and that it should not have come down to us in its original form, for it is evidently a mere abstract of a larger work. Some, indeed, have endeavoured to strip it of all pretensions to credit, and to rank it with the Arabian tales; but though some of the stories may have the appearance of fable, such as fierce torrents and women covered with hair, the facts, which are susceptible of verification, either by the test of geography or a comparison with the descriptions of travellers, are of too consistent a nature to allow us to doubt that the voyage was really undertaken. It would appear that the first city was founded at no great distance from the Strait of Gibraltar, the rest to the north of Cape Bojador. This voyage extended a little to the south of Sierra Leone; but we must refer the reader to the writers who have examined the subject for a detailed account of his geographical statements. The title of the Periplus is, An Account of the Voyage of Hanno, Commander of the Carthaginians, round the parts of Libya beyond the Pillars of Hercules, which he deposited in the Temple of Saturn. It has been published by Hudson (Geogr. Min., vol. i.), and Falconer (Oxford, 1797), with an English translation and explanations; also by Ruge, Hannonis Navigatio, textum critique recogn. et adnotat. illustravit, Leip. 1829. The following authors have also published commentaries on the voyage, viz., Bochart, Campomanes, Dodwell, Bougainville, Gosselin, Heeren, and Rennel.