Atys

The sixth king of Alba Longa, the son of Alba, and father of Capys, from whom the Latin gens Atia derived its origin, and from whom Augustus was believed to be descended on his mother's side.

He is called Epytus by Ovid1 and Capetus by Dionysius.2

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References

Notes

  1. Metamorphoses xiv, 610 ff.
  2. i, 71.

Sources

  • Livy. The History of Rome i, 3.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Suetonius. Divus Augustus, 4.
  • Virgil. Aeneid v, 568.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.