Mourning for Attis (1)

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Arrian, Tactica 33.4:
The Phrygian Rhea is honoured at Pessinous by the Phygian mourning for Attis.

Diodorus Siculus 3.57.6-7:
And Cybele became maddened because of her grief for the youth (= Attis) and wandered around the countryside.

Firmicus Maternus, De Errore 3:
In the annual rites honouring the earth, there is drawn a cortege of the youth’s funeral.

Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 20:
(Aphrodite speaking to Eros:) And you, foolish boy, have persuaded Rhea to long for the Phrygian youth … and now she is wandering up and down Ida mourning for Attis.

Prudentius, Peristephanon 10.200:
The youth must be wept through the many sacred rites of the Mother.

Seneca, Agamemnon 688-690:
The crowd beats its breasts for the turreted Mother, as she mourns Phrygian Attis.

Theocritus, Idylls 20.40:
And you, Rhea, weep for the cowherd.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Arrian, Tactica 33.4
Diodorus Siculus 3.57.6-7
Firmicus Maternus, De Errore 3
Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 20
Prudentius, Peristephanon 10.200
Seneca, Agamemnon 688-690
Theocritus, Idylls 20.40

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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