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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Legendary king of the Lydians, at that time called MEIONES. Herodotus reports that during Atys’ kingship, a harsh famine struck LYDIA, which eventually compelled half the population to emigrate to ITALY, led by Atys’ son TYRSENUS (1.94.3–6). The other half remained in Lydia; after Atys’ death, his other son LYDUS became king there, after whom the people were renamed (1.7.3; 7.74.1). The name Atys reappears later in Herodotus in the Lydian royal family (1.34; perhaps also 7.27). Scholars’ attempts to link Atys with the Anatolian god Attis have been called into question (Bremmer 2004, 536–40).

SEE ALSO: Atys father of Pythius; Atys son of Croesus; Games; Manes