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@Gaypow Ahh, this made me dig. :)
If you look at a regnal list, prominent generals and all that it's true, it's pretty much like five names and they're kinda samey (H- things and short -o like Mago, Hanno.)
But one, that's just prominent names in a couple families, and two, the Greek transliteration leaches a lot of the personality out of the names. Looking at inscriptions it took me way too long to realize Abdmelqart was just the familiar Hamilcar!
@Gaypow So overall it's kinda like reading a French royal chronicle and thinking every other child in France was named Louis. Understandable but not quite there yk.
It gets more awful with the transliteration too. Bodastart/abd'Ashtart (a king of Sidon) somehow, in the mouths of the Greeks, turns into fucking "Strato." It's a cartoon. But everyone does that to everyone else, it's really mainly just the prominent families thing + lots of theophoric names (names-of-gods as elements).