Belus or Belos in classical
Greek or classical
Latin texts (and later material based on them) in an
Assyrian context refers to one or another purportedly ancient and historically nonexistent Assyrian king, such king in part at least an euhemerization of the Babylonian god
Bel Marduk.Belus most commonly appears as the father of
Ninus, who otherwise mostly appears as the first known Assyian king.
Ctesias provides no information about Ninus' parentage. But already in
Herodotus we find a Ninus son of Belus among the ancestors of the Heraclid dynasty of
Lydia, though here Belus is strangely and uniquely made a grandson of
Heracles. See
Omphale for discussion.
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