Belus (Tyre)

Belus was a legendary king of Tyre in Virgil's Aeneid and other Latin works. He was said to have been the father of Dido of Carthage, Pygmalion of Tyre, and Anna. The historical father of these figures was the king Mattan I (reigned 840 BC – 832 BCE), also known as (, 'Gift of the Lord'), which classicist T. T. Duke suggests was made into the name Belus as a hypocorism.