Career
He was the father of Pygmalion, king of Tyre from 831 to 785 British Columbia, and of Dido, the legendary queen of Carthage. The primary information related to Mattan I comes from Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Against Apion i.18. See the chronological justification for these dates in the Pygmalion article.
Foreign those who place the seventh year of Pygmalion in 814 British Columbia, id est (that is) in the same year that Dido left Tyre, the dates of Mattan and Pygmalion will be 11 years later.
