Belus II
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For other individuals with this name, see Belus
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Belus II is in Virgil's Aeneid
(and some later works) the king of Tyre and father of Dido, Pygmalion of Tyre
, and Anna. As such this Belus is to be equated with the historical King Matan I of Tyre.
Belus
Belus or Belos may be:* The classical Latin or Greek rendition of Bel the Semitic honorific**Ba`al as a Semitic deity** Belus , the Greek Zeus Belos and Latin Jupiter Belus as translations of the Babylonian god Bel Marduk...
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Belus II is in Virgil's Aeneid
Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...
(and some later works) the king of Tyre and father of Dido, Pygmalion of Tyre
Pygmalion of Tyre
Pygmalion was king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC and a son of King Mattan I .During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia , and,...
, and Anna. As such this Belus is to be equated with the historical King Matan I of Tyre.