This article is about the Aegyptus from Greek mythology. For the
Book of Abraham reference, see
Egyptus. For the Roman province of the same name, see
Aegyptus (Roman province). In
Greek mythology, Aígyptos, usually Latinized as Aegyptus, in
Greek ("supine goat"), descendant of the
heifer maiden,
Io, and the river-god
Nilus, was a king in
Egypt. Aegyptos was the son of
Belus and
Achiroe, and father of fifty sons who were all but one murdered by the fifty daughters of Aegyptus' twin brother,
Danaus, eponym of the
Danaans, a name for the
Mycenaean Greeks.
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[Greek] The son of Belus and twin brother of Danaus. He was the father of fifty sons who, except for one, fell all victim to the fifty daughters of Danaus. He ruled over Egypt, which took its name from him.
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