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ATTICA, see ATHENS ATYS ( Ἄτυς, ὁ) father of Pythius

CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Patronymic, father of PYTHIUS, a wealthy Lydian who entertains XERXES and the entire Persian army at CELAENAE during their march to Greece in 480 BCE (7.27–29, 38–40). This Atys may be the son of the Lydian king CROESUS whose tragic, divinely foretold death is memorably narrated by Herodotus (1.34–45); he does not make the identification, but the ages and CHRONOLOGY for Atys and Pythius internal to the narrative make it possible.