Atys
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Atys may mean:
  • Atys (king)
    Atys (king)
    Atys, in Roman mythology, was a descendant of Alba and the sixth king of Alba Longa....

     was a king of Alba Longa.
  • Atys (King of the Maeonians)
    Atys (King of the Maeonians)
    Atys was the second king of Maeonia and father of Lydus, sons of Manes. He was the second king of the Atyad dynasty according to Herodotus....

     was an early king of Lydia
    Lydia
    Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....

    , then referred to as Maeonia, and was the father of Lydus
    Lydus
    Lydus was the third king of Maeonia in succession to his father Atys. He was the third and last king of the Atyad dynasty. According to Herodotus, Maeonia became known as Lydia after Lydus's reign.-See also:*List of Kings of Lydia...

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  • Atys son of Croesus
    Atys son of Croesus
    Atys was the son of Croesus, father of Pythius, a king of Lydia. According to book one of the Histories by Herodotus, his father had a dream, in this dream he saw his son Atys being killed by a spear. As a result Croesus, seeking to prevent or stave off the foreseen fate, had his son married...

     was the son of the later King Croesus of Lydia.
  • Attis
    Attis
    Attis was the consort of Cybele in Phrygian and Greek mythology. His priests were eunuchs, as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis and castration...

    , a Phrygian/Roman deity
  • Atys
    Atys (Lully)
    Atys is a tragédie en musique in a prelude and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a French-language libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Fasti. It was premiered at the royal court in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, January 10, 1676...

    , a tragédie lyrique by Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Atys (gastropod), a genus of gastropods in the family Haminoeidae
    Haminoeidae
    Haminoeidae, commonly known as the haminoeid bubble snail family, is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Haminoeoidea....

  • Atys is also the name of the planet that is the setting of the MMORPG
    MMORPG
    Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....

     Ryzom
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