Phrygia was a daughter of Cecrops, from whom the country of Phrygia was believed to have derived its name.
Phrygia is also an epithet for Cybele, as the goddess who was worshipped above all others in Phrygia, and as a surname of Athena on account of the Palladium which was brought from Hellespontine Phrygia.
Phrygia was also a feminine personal name attested in ancient Athens, since ca. 500 BC
Phrygia is the name of Spartacus’ wife in Aram Kachaturian’s 1954 ballet Spartacus.
Other uses
- Phrygia (plant), a taxonomic synonym of the genus Centaurea
- Phrygia, one of the seven Magypsies in the 2006 role-playing video game Mother 3
Notes
- (Plin. H. N. v. 32)-- Totius latinitatis lexicon: Vel a Phrygia Cecropis filia, vel a Phryge fluvio ; or the river Phrygius, see Hyllus (river)
- (Virg. Aen. vii. 139 ; Strab. x. p. 469)
- Ov. Met. xiii. 337 ; compare Apollod. iii. 12. §3.
- IG I³ 546 - Phrygia the bread-seller dedicated me to Athena
- Girls and women in classical Greek religion By Matthew Dillon Page 16 ISBN 0-415-20272-8 (2003)
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Phrygia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.