Belus/Marduk

Frazer, Mary (18. Juni 2024): Belus/Marduk. In: Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press

Abstract

Belus (or Bēlos or Bēlias) is the Latin or Greek rendering of the names of two important Near Eastern gods: Bēl-Marduk, the tutelar deity of the city of Babylon and the head of the Babylonian pantheon from c. 1200 BCE; and Baal, a Canaanite god attested in New Kingdom Egypt, the Levant, and at Ugarit. In Greco-Roman literature, Belus is often treated as an ancestor of various mythological dynasties of the Near East or as the founder of Babylon and Babylonian astronomy.

• Dokumententyp: Lexikon-Artikel
• Keywords: Belus, Belos, Bel, Baal, Babylon, Esagil, Marduk, Nabû, Zeus
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften ; Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar ; Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar > Alte Geschichte
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie
• Bemerkung: This encyclopedia article is an update of a stub authored by someone else. Oxford University Press has requested that it be cited in the following manner (Chicago Manual of Style): Frazer, Mary. “Belus/Marduk.” In Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2015—. Article published December 22, 2015; last modified, June 18, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.1087.
• Sprache: Englisch