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• Baal: a title ("lord") in northwest Semitic languages, often applied to particular gods.
  
  
• Bel: a title ("lord") in Akkadian, especially applied to the Babylonian god Marduk but also used of other gods.
  
  
• Belus (Babylonian): the Greek Zeus Belos and Latin Jupiter Belus as translations of the Babylonian god Bel Marduk or an euhemerized version of that god.
  
  
• Belus (Assyrian): an ancient king of Assyria in classical, legendary history on the edge of Greek mythology.
  
  
• Belus (Egyptian) (sometimes called Belus I): in Greek mythology the son of Poseidon by Libya, King of Egypt, and father of the eponymous Aegyptus and Danaus.
  
  
• Belus II. See DidoIn Greek and Roman sources Elissa or Dido appears as the founder and first Queen of Carthage in Tunisia. She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid''. Early accounts The person of Elissa can be traced back at least to. In Virgil's AeneidThe Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Form and Tradition The Aeneid is an epic poem of twelve books, in consc (and some later works) he is king of TyreTyre (native Phoenician ur Akkadian urru Hebrew or , Greek Tyros Arabic as-Sur is an ancient Phoenician city in Lebanon on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, about 23 miles, in a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of Sidon. Sidon was the oldest Pho and father of DidoIn Greek and Roman sources Elissa or Dido appears as the founder and first Queen of Carthage in Tunisia. She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid''. Early accounts The person of Elissa can be traced back at least to, Pygmalion of TyrePygmalion (also known as Pumayyaton was king of Tyre from 820 to 774 BC, and a son of King Mattan I (829-821 BC). 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 jud, and Anna. As such this Belus is to be equated with the historical King Matan I of Tyre.
  
  
• Belus (Lydian). See OmphaleIn Greek mythology, Omphale was the Queen of Lydia. As penalty for his murder of Iphitus, Heracles was, by Zeus' command, sold as a slave and Omphale became his purchaser. Heracles and Omphale Omphale was daughter of the river Iardanus (also called Iardan. He was a grandson of Heracles and ancestor of the Heraclid dynasty in LydiaSee 110 Lydia for the asteroid. Lydia was an ancient kingdom of Asia Minor, known to Homer as Maeonia . Its principal city was Sardis. The boundaries of Lydia varied across the centuries. It was first bounded by Mysia Major, Caria, Phrygia and Ionia. Late according to Herodotus.