Mattan I
Mattan, Matan, or Mittin ruled Tyre from 840 to 832 BC, succeeding his father Baal-Eser II. He was the father of Pygmalion, king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC, and of Dido, the legendary queen of Carthage. The primary information related to Mattan I comes from Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus in ''Against Apion'' i.18. Here it is said that " Badezorus was succeeded by Matgenus his son: he lived thirty-two years and reigned, nine years: Pygmalion succeeded him". Alternative dates for his reign, from 829 to 821 BC, are given in the work of F. M. Cross and other scholars who take 825 BC as the date of Dido’s flight from her brother Pygmalion, after which she founded the city of Carthage in 814 BC.1
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Baal-Eser II
Baal-Eser II (846–841 BC), also known as Balbazer II and Ba'l-mazzer I was a king of Tyre, the son of Ithobaal I, brother of Jezebel and brother-in-law of Ahab. The primary information related to Baal-Eser II comes from Josephus's citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus in ''Against Apion'' i.18. Here it is said that "Ithobalus, the priest of Astarte...was succeeded by his son Badezorus aal-Eser who lived forty-five years, and reigned six years; he was succeeded by Matgenus attan Ihis son." (see king of Tyre) Baal-Eser reigned at the height of Tyrian influence in the affairs of the Levant. During his reign, his sister was queen of Israel and his niece Athaliah reigned as queen of the Kingdom of Judah, creating a zone of Tyrian influence unrivaled at any period in its history. Tyre is not mentioned as an opponent of Shalmaneser III at the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC, but twelve years later, in 841, Ithobaal's son Baal-Eser II (Ba'l-mazzer) gave tribute to the ...
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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.Virgil. ''Aeneid'' Book 1, Line 729. The historical father of these figures was the king Mattan I, also known as (, 'Gift of the Lord'), which classicist T. T. Duke suggests was made into the name Belus as a hypocorism. See also * Other people and places named Belus * King of Tyre, list of historical kings of Tyre * Melqart Melqart (also Melkarth or Melicarthus) was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons. Often titled the "Lord of Tyre" (''Ba‘al Ṣūr''), he was also known as the Son of ..., Baal of Tyre References 820s BC deaths Phoenician characters in the Aeneid Year of birth unknown {{roman-stub ...
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Phoenician Characters In The Aeneid
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832 BC Deaths
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