Attis
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the god from Pessinus
in the texts
Protrepticus
Phrygian consort of Cybele, deprived of his members; identified by some with Dionysus.
The same rites the Phrygians celebrate for Attis and Cybele and the Corybantes.
For which reason not without ground do some wish Dionysus to be called Attis, since he was deprived of his members.
Ad Nationes
Phrygian god associated with Cybele, whose castration myth is reenacted as arena spectacle.
We have often seen Attis, the god from Pessinus, castrated;
But this too, as a thing of yesterday, and destitute of the authority of time, and weak from the character of its author, I shall gladly take up in my zeal for turning it back.
Apologeticum
God of Pessinus, consort of Cybele, whose castration was reenacted in the arena.
We have sometimes seen Attis castrated, that god of Pessinus;