Belus was a legendary king of Tyre in Virgil's Aeneid and other Latin works.[1] He was said to have been the father of Dido of Carthage, Pygmalion of Tyre, and Anna.[2] The historical father of these figures was the king Mattan I (reigned 840 BC – 832 BCE), also known as MTN-BʿL (Matan-Baʿal, 'Gift of the Lord'), which classicist T. T. Duke suggests was made into the name Belus as a hypocorism.[3]
See also
edit- Other people and places named Belus
- King of Tyre, list of historical kings of Tyre
- Melqart, Baal of Tyre
- Baal-Eser II, identified by some to be Balazeros (grandfather of Pygmalion according to Menander of Ephesus)
References
edit- ^ The typical Roman rendering of the Akkadian Bel and Northwest Semitic Baʿal (both meaning "Lord") as a theonym, personal name, or title.
- ^ Virgil. Aeneid Book 1, Line 729.
- ^ Duke, T. T. (1969). "Review: The World of the Phoenicians". The Classical Journal. 65 (3). The Classical Association of the Middle West and South: 135. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3296263. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
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