Atys may refer to:
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Atys (King of Alba Longa)
In Roman mythology, Atys (said to have reigned 989-963 BC) was a descendant of Alba (Ancient Rome), Alba and the sixth king of Alba Longa. Geoffrey of Monmouth asserted in his ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' that Silvius (whom he calls "Silvius Ep ...
, a king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology
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Atys of Lydia
Atys (Ancient Greek: Ἄτυς) is a legendary figure of the 2nd millennium BC who is attested by Herodotus to have been an early king of Lydia, then probably known as Maeonia. He was the son of Manes and the father of Lydus, after whom the Lyd ...
, an early king of Lydia, then probably known as Maeonia, and was the father of Lydus
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Atys (son of Croesus)
Atys () was the son of Croesus king of Lydia. He had one son named Pythius.from Herodotus, 7.27.
According to Hdt. 1.35-45 (1, 35 to 45 of the ''Histories'' by Herodotus), Atys's father king Croesus had a dream, in which he saw his son Atys killed ...
, the son of the later King Croesus of Lydia
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Tantalus (son of Broteas), husband of Clytemnestra in Greek mythology
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''Atys'' (Lully), a 1676 ''tragédie lyrique'' by Jean-Baptiste Lully
* Atys, a poorly-studied
Lydia
Lydia (; ) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital was Sardis.
At some point before 800 BC, ...
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solar deity, wrongly conflated with
Attis
Attis (; , also , , ) was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.
His priests were eunuchs, the '' Galli'', as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself. Attis was also a Phrygian vegetation deity. Hi ...
in 19th century scholarship (''see discussion in''
Attis
Attis (; , also , , ) was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.
His priests were eunuchs, the '' Galli'', as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself. Attis was also a Phrygian vegetation deity. Hi ...
)
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''Atys'' (gastropod), a genus of gastropods in the family Haminoeidae
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''Atys'' (Piccinni), a 1780 tragédie lyrique in three acts by Niccolò Piccinni
* Atys, a fictional planet that is the setting of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game ''
Ryzom''
See also
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Atis (disambiguation)
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Attis
Attis (; , also , , ) was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.
His priests were eunuchs, the '' Galli'', as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself. Attis was also a Phrygian vegetation deity. Hi ...
, a
Phrygia
In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.
Stories of the heroic age of Greek mythology tell of several legendary Ph ...
n / Roman deity with a similar-sounding name, frequently but mistakenly equated with Atys (deity), due to a long-accepted 19th century scholarly error (''see discussion in''
Attis
Attis (; , also , , ) was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.
His priests were eunuchs, the '' Galli'', as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself. Attis was also a Phrygian vegetation deity. Hi ...
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