Belus was a legendary king ofTyre inVirgil'sAeneid and other Latin works.[1] He was said to have been the father ofDido of Carthage,Pygmalion of Tyre, andAnna.[2] The historical father of these figures was the kingMattan I (reigned 840 BC – 832 BCE), also known asMTN-BʿL (Matan-Baʿal, 'Gift of the Lord'), whichclassicist T. T. Duke suggests was made into the name Belus as ahypocorism.[3]
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