Mark H. Munn

Herodotus on the death of Atys: an Anatolian heroic archetype

Abstract Herodotus’ story of the death of Atys, son of Croesus (1.34–45), has long been seen as an example of his willingness to embroider if not invent stories to give his narrative dramatic effect. Images on a distinctive class of funerary monuments from Anatolia demonstrate th...