What is "atys"

Atys is a genus of very small to medium-sized sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Haminoeidae.

All the species within the genus Atys are herbivores. They occur in tropical and warm oceans and seas. They are cephalaspideans, part of the suborder of headshield slugs and bubble snails.

The genus was named after Atys, a king of Alba Longa, who was mentioned in ancient Greek texts.

Atys may refer to:

• Atys (King of Alba Longa), a king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology
• Atys (King of the Maeonians), an early king of Lydia, then referred to as Maeonia, and was the father of Lydus
• Atys (son of Croesus), the son of the later King Croesus of Lydia
• Tantalus (son of Broteas), husband of Clytemnestra in Greek mythology
• Attis, a Phrygian/Roman deity
• Atys (Lully), a 1676 tragédie lyrique by Jean-Baptiste Lully
• Atys (gastropod), a genus of gastropods in the family Haminoeidae
• Atys (Piccinni), a 1780 tragédie lyrique in three acts by Niccolò Piccinni
• Atys, a planet that is the setting of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Ryzom

Atys was the son of Croesus king of Lydia. He had one son named Pythius.

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 immediately and ceased sending him out to war. One day a giant boar began terrorizing Mysian Olympus, and the Mysians sent to Croesus seeking his son and a team of chosen young men and hounds to help drive it off. Croesus initially refused, but Atys talked his father into letting him hunt the boar, since boars don't wield iron weapons. Croesus gave his consent, but he sent Adrastus with him as a body guard. During the hunt, Adrastus accidentally killed Atys when hurling a spear at the boar. Riddled with guilt, Adrastus slew himself over the tomb of Atys.

Atys ( Attis) is a tragédie en musique, a type of early French opera, in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Fasti. It was premiered on 10 January 1676 by Lully's Académie Royale de Musique ( Paris Opera) for the royal court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and was first performed in public in April at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. Although this opera was met with indifference by the Parisian audience, it became known as "the king's opera" because of King Louis XIV's love for it. It was repeated for Louis XIV in 1678 and 1682.

In Roman mythology, Atys (said to have reigned 989-963 BC) was a descendant of Alba and the sixth king of Alba Longa.

Atys is a tragédie lyrique in three acts by Niccolò Piccinni with a French libretto by Jean-François Marmontel. Marmontel's libretto was based upon Philippe Quinault's libretto for Jean-Baptiste Lully's 1676 opera of the same title. Quinault based his rendition on Ovid's Fasti. Marmontel adapted Quinault's libretto and modified it by removing the prologue and divertissements. He also altered the plot; instead of using Ovid's metamorphic ending (which Quinault used), Atys commits suicide. Piccinni's opera was premiered by the Paris Opera at the second Salle du Palais-Royal on 22 February 1780. Musically the opera is admired for its fugal overture, the dream sequence in Act II, the long quartet at the dramatic climax, and the somber dirge with which it ends.

In 1783 there was a second version of the opera produced by Piccinni and Marmontel. In order to satisfy the current trends in opera, they changed the ending to a lieto fine, or happy ending, by rewriting entire sections of the original opera. In this second version Atys was returned to the stage of the Opéra in 1783, 1784, 1791 and 1792. In all, it was mounted at the Opéra on 65 dates before being dropped for good.

Atys one of the sons of Manes along with Cotys, was the second king of Maeonia (later known as Lydia) and father of Lydus. He was the second king of the Atyad dynasty according to Herodotus.

Herodotus later (1.94) relates that Maeonia (Lydia) was beset with famine during Atys' reign, on which account the games of dice, knuckle-bones and ball were developed, and the Maeonians spent every other day fasting and playing these games for 18 years. Not finding relief from hunger, Atys then sent half the population of Maeonia with his son Tursenos away on ships, and these settled in Umbria, calling themselves Tyrrhenians.

The native Lydian historian Xanthus, who wrote slightly after Herodotus, though his work survives only in fragments, also affirmed that King Atys was father to two sons, Lydus and Torubus, who he says parted company, splitting the Maeonian nation into two, Lydians and "Torubians".