In Greek mythology, Aegyptus (Greek: Αἴγυπτος, Aígyptos)'s a descendant of the heifer maiden, Io, and the river-god Nilus, and was a king in Egypt. Aegyptos was the son of Belus and Achiroe, a naiad daughter of Nile. Aegyptus fathered 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. A scholium on a line in Euripides, Hecuba 886, reverses these… (More on Aegyptus)