In Greek mythology, Atthis () or Attis () was the eponymous heroine of Attica.
Family Atthis was an Athenian princess as the daughter of the autochthonous King Cranaus and Pedias, the Lacedaemonian daughter of Mynes. She was the sister of Cranaë and Cranaechme.Pausanias, 1.2.5.
Mythology When Attis died a virgin, her father Cranaus named in her honour the land Attica which was formerly called Actaea (Acte or Actica) after King Actaeus, its former ruler.Apollodorus, 3.14.5.
Apollodorus also mentions that by Hephaestus Attis had Erichthonius, although he also mentions that it might have been by Gaia or Athena instead.Apollodorus, 3.14.6.
Other use The two birds into which Philomele and her sister Procne were metamorphosed, were likewise called Attis.Martial, 1.54.9 & 5.67.2
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Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.