Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Belus.
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Belus (Egyptian)
Son of Poseidon and Libya, twin of Agenor, king of Egypt — father of Danaus and Aegyptus. Not Belus of Babylon, nor every Near Eastern Bel conflated with him.
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Danaus
Belus' son — the twin who flees to Argos with fifty daughters after the Egyptian succession splits.
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Aegyptus
Belus' other twin son — eponym of Egypt in the feud that arms the Danaids' wedding night.
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Agenor
Belus' twin who takes Phoenicia — the brother-line that sends Europa and Cadmus west while Belus holds the Nile.