Agdistis

Role: Hermaphrodite · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 17

Life events

• The gods bound Agdistis and cut off his male privities.(Book 7 · Chapter 17)
  • “And the gods bound this Agdistis and cut off his male privities.”
• Attes mutilated himself during his wedding after Agdistis appeared.(Book 7 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Pessinus)
  • With: Attes
  • “And the wedding song was being sung when Agdistis appeared, and Attes in his rage cut off his private parts”

Book 7 · Chapter 17

• parent: Zeus “but there is a local tradition that Zeus in his sleep dropt seed into the ground, and that in process of time there sprang up a Hermaphrodite whom they called Agdistis;”
• admired: Attes “And as the lad’s beauty was more than human, Agdistis grew violently in love with him.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.