person
Attis
The Phrygian youth beloved of Cybele who, breaking his vow of chastity, went mad and castrated himself — the prototype of the Galli.
Reading notes
- The Festivals §4.4 Attis
The Phrygian youth beloved of Cybele who broke his vow of chastity, went mad, and castrated himself.
- The Festivals §5.2 Attis
The Phrygian consort of Cybele, transformed in the violet-myth among Flora's flower-youths.
- Ibis §14 Attis
Attis, the youth who unmanned himself in Cybele's frenzy, becoming 'neither woman nor man.'
- Metamorphoses §10.290 Attis
Attis, the youth beloved of Cybele who was changed into a pine.